Merging the senses into a robust percept

Marc O. Ernst; Heinrich H. Bülthoff

doi:10.1016/j.tics.2004.02.002

Merging the senses into a robust percept

Marc O. Ernst, Heinrich H. Bülthoff

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Abstract

To perceive the external environment our brain uses multiple sources of sensory information derived from several different modalities, including vision, touch and audition. All these different sources of information have to be efficiently merged to form a coherent and robust percept. Here we highlight some of the mechanisms that underlie this merging of the senses in the brain. We show that, depending on the type of information, different combination and integration strategies are used and that prior knowledge is often required for interpreting the sensory signals.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	162-169
Number of pages	8
Journal	Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Volume	8
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2004.02.002
Publication status	Published - 2004 Apr

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Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Max Planck Society and by the 5th Framework IST Program of the EU (IST-2001–38040, TOUCH-HapSys). We thank Marty Banks, Roberta Klatzky, Andrew Welchman and Knut Drewing for helpful comments on this draft and Martin Breidt for help with the figures.

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Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Cognitive Neuroscience

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