By Ladan Shams
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چکیده
It is clear that the information processed by the different sensory modalities are integrated into a coherent multisensory percept by the brain. However, it is not known how, nor at what level of processing, nor where in the brain this integration takes place. As a result, it is also not clear whether the combination of signals from different modalities occurs prior to or following conscious sensory processing. Artificially imposing conflict between the information conveyed by different modalities (which are, under normal circumstances, often consistent) has proved to be a useful way of studying cross-modal interactions. This paradigm may also be useful for gaining insight into the processing stages of multi-sensory integration and their relationship with conscious awareness.
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