Topic: audiovisual stimuli

Multisensory processing in the brain is pivotal for forming perceptual decisions. While the primary sensory areas were traditionally considered strictly unisensory, recent rodent research has unveiled significant interactions between the auditory and visual cortices. Notably, V1 neurons were found to be hyperpolarized by auditory noise bursts or show sensitivity to the temporal coherence of audiovisual stimuli. These findings indicate that primary sensory regions possess the computational capacity for multisensory processing, although the impact of such cross-modal interactions on decision-mak