Research report 2005 - Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics

Where our brain integrates what’s heard and felt

Authors
Logothetis, Nikos
Departments
Neurophysiologie kognitiver Prozesse (Prof. Dr. Nikos Logothetis)
MPI für biologische Kybernetik, Tübingen
Summary
New results demonstrate that those regions of the brain uniquely devoted to the processing of a single sense are rarer than classically thought. Instead, most of the brain is concerned with merging information across senses and creating a coherent percept.

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