Audiotactile multisensory interactions in human information processing

Journal article

The last few years has seen a very rapid growth of interest in how signals from different sensory modalities are integrated in the brain to form the unified percepts that fill our daily lives. Research on multisensory interactions between vision, touch, and proprioception has revealed the existence of multisensory spatial representations that code the location of external events relative to our own bodies. In this review, we highlight recent converging evidence from both human and animal stud...

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Authors: Kitagawa, N; Spence, C

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: JAPANESE PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH
• Volume: 48
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 158-173
• Publication date: 2006-09-01
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5884.2006.00317.x
• EISSN: 1468-5884
• ISSN: 0021-5368
• Language: English
• Keywords: hearing; touch; peripersonal space; crossmodal interaction; multisensory integration