The Multisensory Nature of Unisensory Cortices: A Puzzle Continued
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Multisensory integration is central to perception, and recent work drafts it as a distributed process involving many and even primary sensory cortices. Studies in behaving animals performing a multisensory task provide an ideal means to elucidate the underlying neural basis, and a new study by Lemus et al. in this issue of Neuron thrusts in this direction.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Neuron
دوره 67 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2010