Synopses & Reviews
Many organisms possess multiple sensory systems, such as vision, hearing, touch, smell, and taste. The possession of such multiple ways of sensing the world offers many benefits. These benefits arise not only because each modality can sense different aspects of the environment, but also because different senses can respond jointly to the same external object or event, thus enriching the overall experience-for example, looking at an individual while listening to them speak. However, combining the information from different senses also poses many challenges for the nervous system. In recent years, there has been dramatic progress in understanding how information from different sensory modalities gets integrated in order to construct useful representations of external space; and in how such multimodal representations constrain spatial attention. Such progress has involved numerous different disciplines, including neurophysiology, experimental psychology, neurological work with brain-damaged patients, neuroimaging studies, and computational modelling. This volume brings together the leading researchers from all these approaches, to present the first integrative overview of this central topic in cognitive neuroscience.
Table of Contents
Introductory comments 1. Development of multisensory spatial integration, Adnrew King
2. Crossmodal spatial interactions in subcortical and cortical circuits, Barry E Stein, Terrence R Stanford, Mark T Wallace, J William Vaughan and Wan Jiang
3. A system of multimodal areas in the primate brain, Michael S A Graziano, Charles S Gross, Charlotte S R Taylor and Tirin Moore
4. Neuropsychological evidence for multimodal representations of space near specific body parts, Elisabetta Ladavas and Alessandro Farne
5. Multimodal spatial representations in the primate parietal lobe, Yale E Cohen and Richard A Andersen
6. A computational neural theory of multisensory spatial representations, Alexandre Pouget, Sophie Deneve and Jean-Rene Duhamel
7. The psychology of multimodal perception, Paul Bertelson and Beatrice de Gelder
8. Crossmodal spatial attention: evidence from human performance, Jon Driver and Charles Spence
9. Electrophysiology of human crossmodal spatial attention, Martin Eimer
10. Functional imaging of crossmodal spatial representations and crossmodal spatial attention, Emiliano Macaluso and Jon Drive
11. Exogenous spatial cuing studies of human crossmodal attention and multisensory integration, Charles Spence, John McDonald and Jon Driver