Multisensory Integration: Vision Boosts Information through Suppression in Auditory Cortex

Current Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Ghazanfar, Asif A ^a   Lemus, Luis ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; AUDITORY CORTEX; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; HEARING; HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT SURVEY; VISION;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 73449144800     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.11.046     Document Type: Short Survey

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