TY - JOUR
T1 - Merging the senses into a robust percept
AU - Ernst, Marc O.
AU - Bülthoff, Heinrich H.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Max Planck Society and by the 5th Framework IST Program of the EU (IST-2001–38040, TOUCH-HapSys). We thank Marty Banks, Roberta Klatzky, Andrew Welchman and Knut Drewing for helpful comments on this draft and Martin Breidt for help with the figures.
PY - 2004/4
Y1 - 2004/4
N2 - To perceive the external environment our brain uses multiple sources of sensory information derived from several different modalities, including vision, touch and audition. All these different sources of information have to be efficiently merged to form a coherent and robust percept. Here we highlight some of the mechanisms that underlie this merging of the senses in the brain. We show that, depending on the type of information, different combination and integration strategies are used and that prior knowledge is often required for interpreting the sensory signals.
AB - To perceive the external environment our brain uses multiple sources of sensory information derived from several different modalities, including vision, touch and audition. All these different sources of information have to be efficiently merged to form a coherent and robust percept. Here we highlight some of the mechanisms that underlie this merging of the senses in the brain. We show that, depending on the type of information, different combination and integration strategies are used and that prior knowledge is often required for interpreting the sensory signals.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.tics.2004.02.002
DO - 10.1016/j.tics.2004.02.002
M3 - Review article
C2 - 15050512
AN - SCOPUS:1842576869
SN - 1364-6613
VL - 8
SP - 162
EP - 169
JO - Trends in Cognitive Sciences
JF - Trends in Cognitive Sciences
IS - 4
ER -