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How the brain controls decision making in a multisensory world
Sensory systems evolved to provide the organism with information about the environment to guide adaptive behaviour. Neuroscientists and psychologists have traditionally considered each sense independently, a legacy of Aristotle and a natural consequence of their distinct physical and anatomical base...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10404917/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37545306 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2022.0332 |
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description | Sensory systems evolved to provide the organism with information about the environment to guide adaptive behaviour. Neuroscientists and psychologists have traditionally considered each sense independently, a legacy of Aristotle and a natural consequence of their distinct physical and anatomical bases. However, from the point of view of the organism, perception and sensorimotor behaviour are fundamentally multi-modal; after all, each modality provides complementary information about the same world. Classic studies revealed much about where and how sensory signals are combined to improve performance, but these tended to treat multisensory integration as a static, passive, bottom-up process. It has become increasingly clear how this approach falls short, ignoring the interplay between perception and action, the temporal dynamics of the decision process and the many ways by which the brain can exert top-down control of integration. The goal of this issue is to highlight recent advances on these higher order aspects of multisensory processing, which together constitute a mainstay of our understanding of complex, natural behaviour and its neural basis. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Decision and control processes in multisensory perception’. |
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spelling | pubmed-104049172023-08-08 How the brain controls decision making in a multisensory world Fetsch, Christopher R. Noppeney, Uta Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci Introduction Sensory systems evolved to provide the organism with information about the environment to guide adaptive behaviour. Neuroscientists and psychologists have traditionally considered each sense independently, a legacy of Aristotle and a natural consequence of their distinct physical and anatomical bases. However, from the point of view of the organism, perception and sensorimotor behaviour are fundamentally multi-modal; after all, each modality provides complementary information about the same world. Classic studies revealed much about where and how sensory signals are combined to improve performance, but these tended to treat multisensory integration as a static, passive, bottom-up process. It has become increasingly clear how this approach falls short, ignoring the interplay between perception and action, the temporal dynamics of the decision process and the many ways by which the brain can exert top-down control of integration. The goal of this issue is to highlight recent advances on these higher order aspects of multisensory processing, which together constitute a mainstay of our understanding of complex, natural behaviour and its neural basis. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Decision and control processes in multisensory perception’. The Royal Society 2023-09-25 2023-08-07 /pmc/articles/PMC10404917/ /pubmed/37545306 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2022.0332 Text en © 2023 The Authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Introduction Fetsch, Christopher R. Noppeney, Uta How the brain controls decision making in a multisensory world |
title | How the brain controls decision making in a multisensory world |
title_full | How the brain controls decision making in a multisensory world |
title_fullStr | How the brain controls decision making in a multisensory world |
title_full_unstemmed | How the brain controls decision making in a multisensory world |
title_short | How the brain controls decision making in a multisensory world |
title_sort | how the brain controls decision making in a multisensory world |
topic | Introduction |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10404917/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37545306 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2022.0332 |
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