TY  - GEN
AU  - Achille Pasqualotto
AU  - Andriy Myachykov
AU  - Magda L.Dumitru
TI  - Multisensory Integration: Brain, Body and the World
SN  - 978-2-88919-792-7
PY  - 2016///
PB  - Frontiers Media SA
KW  - attentional deployment
KW  - space and time processing
KW  - Numerical cognition
KW  - Language
KW  - emotional processing
KW  - embodied reasoning
KW  - multisensory integration
KW  - body representation
N1  - Open Access
N2  - Behaviour, language, and reasoning are expressions of neural functions par excellence, as the brain must draw on sensory modalities to gather information on the rest of the body and on the outer world. Cortical areas processing the identity and location of sensory inputs were once thought to be organised hierarchically, with some branches dedicated to basic features and other branches dedicated to complex features. Yet current studies have uncovered synergistic effects at early sensory cortices as well as at higher-level association areas. A less hierarchical functional architecture of the brain has emerged such that, irrespective of sensory modality, inputs would be allocated to the best suited cortical substrate. It is our hope that the articles included in this special issue will offer novel insights into recent developments relating to multisensory integration and brain functioning
UR  - http://journal.frontiersin.org/researchtopic/3232/multisensory-integration-brain-body-and-the-world
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/54086
ER  -