ISSN 1671-3710
CN 11-4766/R
主办:中国科学院心理研究所
出版:科学出版社

›› 2011, Vol. 19 ›› Issue (7): 976-982.

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Processing of Audiovisual Integration and Its Neural Mechanism

WEN Xiao-Hui;LI Guo-Qiang;LIU Qiang   

  1. (1 Department of Education and Science, Hunan Institute of Humanities, Science and Technology, Hunan 417000, China)
    (2 School of psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China)
  • Received:2011-01-06 Revised:1900-01-01 Online:2011-07-15 Published:2011-07-15
  • Contact: LIU Qiang

Abstract: Incoming signals from different sensory modalities are initially processed in anatomically separate regions in human brain, and then be integrated in multimodal association cortices. From human imaging studies about audiovisual integration in speech perception it is clear that auditory and visual inputs can influence each other and be integrated primarily in the left posterior superior temporal sulcus (STS). Increasingly, this integrative effect should be constrainted by space and time. Further trends will benefit from establishing the most suitable experimental paradigms and analytic methods for multisensory integration involved in more complex domain.

Key words: audiovisual integration, superior temporal sulcus, time, space