ten Oever, Sanne and Romei, Vincenzo and van Atteveldt, Nienke and Soto-Faraco, Salvador and Murray, Micah M and Matusz, Pawel J (2016) The COGs (context, object, and goals) in multisensory processing. Experimental Brain Research, 234 (5). pp. 1307-1323. DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-016-4590-z
ten Oever, Sanne and Romei, Vincenzo and van Atteveldt, Nienke and Soto-Faraco, Salvador and Murray, Micah M and Matusz, Pawel J (2016) The COGs (context, object, and goals) in multisensory processing. Experimental Brain Research, 234 (5). pp. 1307-1323. DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-016-4590-z
ten Oever, Sanne and Romei, Vincenzo and van Atteveldt, Nienke and Soto-Faraco, Salvador and Murray, Micah M and Matusz, Pawel J (2016) The COGs (context, object, and goals) in multisensory processing. Experimental Brain Research, 234 (5). pp. 1307-1323. DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-016-4590-z
Abstract
Our understanding of how perception operates in real-world environments has been substantially advanced by studying both multisensory processes and “top-down” control processes influencing sensory processing via activity from higher-order brain areas, such as attention, memory, and expectations. As the two topics have been traditionally studied separately, the mechanisms orchestrating real-world multisensory processing remain unclear. Past work has revealed that the observer’s goals gate the influence of many multisensory processes on brain and behavioural responses, whereas some other multisensory processes might occur independently of these goals. Consequently, other forms of top-down control beyond goal dependence are necessary to explain the full range of multisensory effects currently reported at the brain and the cognitive level. These forms of control include sensitivity to stimulus context as well as the detection of matches (or lack thereof) between a multisensory stimulus and categorical attributes of naturalistic objects (e.g. tools, animals). In this review we discuss and integrate the existing findings that demonstrate the importance of such goal-, object- and context-based top-down control over multisensory processing. We then put forward a few principles emerging from this literature review with respect to the mechanisms underlying multisensory processing and discuss their possible broader implications.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Attention; Multisensory; Control; Object; Top-down; Bottom-up; Audio-visual; Brain mapping |
Subjects: | R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry |
Divisions: | Faculty of Science and Health Faculty of Science and Health > Psychology, Department of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 25 May 2016 11:45 |
Last Modified: | 30 Oct 2024 20:22 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/16660 |
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