Multisensory processes are fundamental in scaffolding perception, cognition, learning, and
behavior. How and when stimuli from different sensory modalities are integrated rather than …

Cognitive neuroscience seeks to discover how cognitive functions are implemented in
neural circuits. Studies of plasticity in blindness suggest that this mind–brain map** is …

In the past decades, reductionism has dominated both research directions and funding
policies in clinical psychology and psychiatry. The intense search for the biological basis of …

Human early visual cortex was traditionally thought to process simple visual features such
as orientation, contrast, and spatial frequency via feedforward input from the lateral …

Stimuli from multiple sensory organs can be integrated into a coherent representation
through multiple phases of multisensory processing; this phenomenon is called multisensory …

Contrasting the impact of congenital versus late-onset acquired blindness provides a unique
model to probe how experience at different developmental periods shapes the functional …

It has been nearly 10 years since Ghazanfar and Schroeder (2006) proposed that the
neocortex is essentially multisensory in nature. However, it is only recently that sufficient and …

Is visual input during critical periods of development crucial for the emergence of the
fundamental topographical map** of the visual cortex? And would this structure be …

Multisensory integration (MSI) occurs in a variety of brain areas, spanning cortical and
subcortical regions. In traditional studies on sensory processing, the sensory cortices have …

Complex natural sounds, such as bird singing, people talking, or traffic noise, induce
decodable fMRI activation patterns in early visual cortex of sighted blindfolded participants …