Multisensory integration produces an initial response enhancement

Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience

Volumn 1, Issue NOV, 2007, Pages

  Rowland, Benjamin A ^a   Stein, Barry E ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross modal; Information; Latency; Multisensory; Physiology; Superior colliculus

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898685400     PISSN: 16625145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.07.004.2007     Document Type: Article

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