Such tasks minimise the confounding influence of compensatory attentional processes on multisensory processing.
Whereas long-term training or sensory deprivation have been shown to induce long-term plasticity of sensory processing mechanisms, here we showed that even in the very short term, multisensory processing is a plastic process.
Research on multisensory processing brings evidence of enhancements of multimodal neurons' firings, perceptual processes, or reaction times, in response to stimuli with similar characteristics represented in different modalities [1], [33] [36].
Foxe, J. J. et al. Auditory-somatosensory multisensory processing in auditory association cortex: an fMRI study.
ten Oever, S. et al. The COGs (context, object, and goals) in multisensory processing.
Thus, sensory dominance appears to contribute to age-related differences in multisensory processing, at least in healthy individuals.
Notably, these findings required scrutiny of both sensory and multisensory processing profiles that were not otherwise visible in general analyses.
While the cause of these symptoms is not known, he said, multisensory processing areas may be involved.
Senkowski, D., Schneider, T. R., Foxe, J. J. & Engel, A. K. Crossmodal binding through neural coherence: implications for multisensory processing.
However, recent evidence suggests that alterations of unisensory and multisensory processing are also present.
Multisensory processing involving visual and auditory inputs is modulated by their relative temporal offsets.
