Topic: multisensory responses

The human middle temporal complex (hMT+) has a crucial biological relevance for the processing and detection of direction and speed of motion in visual stimuli. In both humans and monkeys, it has been extensively investigated in terms of its retinotopic properties and selectivity for direction of moving stimuli; however, only in recent years there has been an increasing interest in how neurons in MT encode the speed of motion. In this talk, I will explore the proposed mechanism of speed encoding questioning whether hMT+ neuronal populations encode the stimulus speed directly, or whether they s

The human middle temporal complex (hMT+) has a crucial biological relevance for the processing and detection of direction and speed of motion in visual stimuli. In both humans and monkeys, it has been extensively investigated in terms of its retinotopic properties and selectivity for direction of moving stimuli; however, only in recent years there has been an increasing interest in how neurons in MT encode the speed of motion. In this talk, I will explore the proposed mechanism of speed encoding questioning whether hMT+ neuronal populations encode the stimulus speed directly, or whether they s

Multisensory responses are ubiquitous in so-called unisensory cortex. However, despite their prevalence, we have very little understanding of what – if anything - they contribute to perception. In this talk I will focus on audio-visual integration in auditory cortex. Anatomical tracing studies highlight visual cortex as one source of visual input to auditory cortex. Using cortical cooling we test the hypothesis that these inputs support audiovisual integration in ferret auditory cortex. Behavioural studies in humans support the idea that visual stimuli can help listeners to parse an auditory s