A Matter of Bottom-Up or Top-Down Processes: The Role of Attention in Multisensory Integration

• Main Author: Jess Hartcher-O'Brien (auth)
• Other Authors: Salvador Soto-Faraco (auth), Ruth Adam (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2017
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Neurosciences; Audio-tactile; cross-modal; emotion; Temporal; Awareness; congruency; audio-visual; spatial
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The integration of information from various sensory modalities influences behaviour. It can induce behavioural benefits such as faster reaction times and enhanced detection of noisy signals but may also produce illusions, all of which have been characterized by specific neuronal signatures. Yet, whi...