ABSTRACT A development essential for understanding the neural basis of complex
behavior and cognition is the description, during the last quarter of the twentieth century, of …

The ventral frontal lobe is a critical node in the circuit that underlies communication, a
multisensory process where sensory features of faces and vocalizations come together. The …

This chapter presents a comprehensive hypothesis relating to the function of the claustrum
derived from the original Crick-Koch hypothesis. We suggest that it is concerned with …

The McGurk effect demonstrates the influence of visual cues on auditory perception.
Mismatching information from both sensory modalities can fuse to a novel percept that …

The claustrum receives afferent inputs from multiple sensory-related brain areas, prompting
speculation about a role in integrating information across sensory modalities. Here we …

Primate social communication depends on the perceptual integration of visual and auditory
cues, reflected in the multimodal mixing of sensory signals in certain cortical areas. The …

Animals identify, interpret, and respond to complex, natural signals that are often
multisensory. The ability to integrate signals across sensory modalities depends on the …

Social communication relies on the integration of auditory and visual information, which are
present in faces and vocalizations. Evidence suggests that the integration of information …

Effective interactions between conspecific individuals can depend upon the receiver forming
a coherent multisensory representation of communication signals, such as merging voice …

Sensory systems influence one another during development and deprivation can lead to
cross-modal plasticity. As auditory function begins before vision, we investigate the effect of …