Multisensory integration shortens physiological response latencies

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 22, 2007, Pages 5879-5884

  Rowland, Benjamin A ^a   Quessy, Stephan ^b   Stanford, Terrence R ^a   Stein, Barry E ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

Audition; Cross modal; Latency; Multisensory; Superior colliculus; Vision

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; HEARING; LATENT PERIOD; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY CORTEX; SENSORY STIMULATION; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; CATS; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS;

EID: 34249819943     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4986-06.2007     Document Type: Article

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