It has become accepted in the neuroscience community that perception and performance
are quintessentially multisensory by nature. Using the full palette of modern brain imaging …

Highlights•Models combining drift-diffusion and optimality can explain multisensory
discrimination behavior.•A distributed network with multiple redundant pathways is involved …

Humans, like other animals, are exposed to a continuous stream of signals, which are
dynamic, multimodal, extended, and time varying in nature. This complex input space must …

The brain9s ability to bind incoming auditory and visual stimuli depends critically on the
temporal structure of this information. Specifically, there exists a temporal window of …

Attending to a stimulus enhances its neuronal representation, even at the level of primary
sensory cortex. Cross-modal modulation can similarly enhance a neuronal representation …

Very realistic human-looking robots or computer avatars tend to elicit negative feelings in
human observers. This phenomenon is known as the “uncanny valley” response. It is …

Combining information across modalities can affect sensory performance. We studied how
co-occurring sounds modulate behavioral visual detection sensitivity (d′), and neural …

Understanding how populations of neurons encode information is the challenge faced by
researchers in the field of neural coding. Focusing on the many mysteries and marvels of the …

A fundamental question in neuroscience concerns how the human brain represents
perceptual and conceptual information. Traditionally, researchers probed this issue by …

Prosodic cues in speech are indispensable for comprehending a speaker's message,
recognizing emphasis and emotion, parsing segmental units, and disambiguating syntactic …