Behavior, perception and cognition are strongly shaped by the synthesis of information
across the different sensory modalities. Such multisensory integration often results in …

Perceptions of the flavors of foods or beverages reflect information derived from multiple
sensory afferents, including gustatory, olfactory, and somatosensory fibers. Although flavor …

Synchronous presentation of stimuli to the auditory and visual systems can modify the
formation of a percept in either modality. For example, perception of auditory speech is …

Two categories of objects in the environment—animals and man-made manipulable objects
(tools)—are easily recognized by either their auditory or visual features. Although these …

Adult humans, infants, pre-school children, and non-human animals appear to share a
system of approximate numerical processing for non-symbolic stimuli such as arrays of dots …

Deactivation refers to increased neural activity during low-demand tasks or rest compared
with high-demand tasks. Several groups have reported that a particular set of brain regions …

Some fifty years after the first physiological studies of auditory attention, the field is now
ripening, with exciting recent insights into the psychophysics, psychology, and neural basis …

Virtual reality (VR) is rapidly growing, with the potential to change the way we create and
consume content. In VR, users integrate multimodal sensory information they receive to …

The beneficial effects of mindful awareness and mindfulness meditation training on physical
and psychological health are thought to be mediated in part through changes in underlying …

Understanding the conditions under which the brain integrates the different sensory streams
and the mechanisms supporting this phenomenon is now a question at the forefront of …