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Crossmodal interactions in human learning and memory
Most studies of memory and perceptual learning in humans have employed unisensory settings to simplify the study paradigm. However, in daily life we are often surrounded by complex and cluttered scenes made up of many objects and sources of sensory stimulation. Our experiences are, therefore, highly...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10229776/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37266327 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2023.1181760 |
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author | Murray, Carolyn A. Shams, Ladan |
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description | Most studies of memory and perceptual learning in humans have employed unisensory settings to simplify the study paradigm. However, in daily life we are often surrounded by complex and cluttered scenes made up of many objects and sources of sensory stimulation. Our experiences are, therefore, highly multisensory both when passively observing the world and when acting and navigating. We argue that human learning and memory systems are evolved to operate under these multisensory and dynamic conditions. The nervous system exploits the rich array of sensory inputs in this process, is sensitive to the relationship between the sensory inputs, and continuously updates sensory representations, and encodes memory traces based on the relationship between the senses. We review some recent findings that demonstrate a range of human learning and memory phenomena in which the interactions between visual and auditory modalities play an important role, and suggest possible neural mechanisms that can underlie some surprising recent findings. We outline open questions as well as directions of future research to unravel human perceptual learning and memory. |
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spelling | pubmed-102297762023-06-01 Crossmodal interactions in human learning and memory Murray, Carolyn A. Shams, Ladan Front Hum Neurosci Neuroscience Most studies of memory and perceptual learning in humans have employed unisensory settings to simplify the study paradigm. However, in daily life we are often surrounded by complex and cluttered scenes made up of many objects and sources of sensory stimulation. Our experiences are, therefore, highly multisensory both when passively observing the world and when acting and navigating. We argue that human learning and memory systems are evolved to operate under these multisensory and dynamic conditions. The nervous system exploits the rich array of sensory inputs in this process, is sensitive to the relationship between the sensory inputs, and continuously updates sensory representations, and encodes memory traces based on the relationship between the senses. We review some recent findings that demonstrate a range of human learning and memory phenomena in which the interactions between visual and auditory modalities play an important role, and suggest possible neural mechanisms that can underlie some surprising recent findings. We outline open questions as well as directions of future research to unravel human perceptual learning and memory. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-05-17 /pmc/articles/PMC10229776/ /pubmed/37266327 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2023.1181760 Text en Copyright © 2023 Murray and Shams. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Neuroscience Murray, Carolyn A. Shams, Ladan Crossmodal interactions in human learning and memory |
title | Crossmodal interactions in human learning and memory |
title_full | Crossmodal interactions in human learning and memory |
title_fullStr | Crossmodal interactions in human learning and memory |
title_full_unstemmed | Crossmodal interactions in human learning and memory |
title_short | Crossmodal interactions in human learning and memory |
title_sort | crossmodal interactions in human learning and memory |
topic | Neuroscience |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10229776/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37266327 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2023.1181760 |
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