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Multisensory Object Perception in the Primate Brain

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Editors:
  1. Jochen Kaiser

    1. Inst. Medizinische Psychologie (IMP), Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

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  2. Marcus Johannes Naumer

    1. Abt. Neurophysiologie, MPI für Hirnforschung, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

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  • Provides a comprehensive review of Müller glial cells in the retina

  • Contains color images

  • Will be of interest to neuroscientists as well as ophthalmologists

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Mechanisms

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5
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  3. General Introduction

    1. General Introduction

      • Marcus J. Naumer, Jochen Kaiser
      Pages 1-4

  4. Mechanisms

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5
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    2. Corticocortical Connectivity Subserving Different Forms of Multisensory Convergence

      • M. Alex Meredith, H. Ruth Clemo
      Pages 7-20

    3. Computational Modeling of Multisensory Object Perception

      • Constantin Rothkopf, Thomas Weisswange, Jochen Triesch
      Pages 21-53

    4. Methodological Considerations: Electrophysiology of Multisensory Interactions in Humans

      • Marie -Hélène Giard, Julien Besle
      Pages 55-70

    5. Cortical Oscillations and Multisensory Interactions in Humans

      • Jochen Kaiser, Marcus J. Naumer
      Pages 71-82

    6. Multisensory Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

      • Marcus J. Naumer, Jasper J. F. van den Bosch, Andrea Polony, Jochen Kaiser
      Pages 83-92

  5. Audio-Visual Integration

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93
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    2. Audiovisual Temporal Integration for Complex Speech, Object-Action, Animal Call, and Musical Stimuli

      • Argiro Vatakis, Charles Spence
      Pages 95-121

    3. Imaging Cross-Modal Influences in Auditory Cortex

      • Christoph Kayser, Christopher I. Petkov, Nikos K. Logothetis
      Pages 123-137

    4. The Default Mode of Primate Vocal Communication and Its Neural Correlates

      • Asif A. Ghazanfar
      Pages 139-153

    5. Audio-Visual Perception of Everyday Natural Objects – Hemodynamic Studies in Humans

      • James W. Lewis
      Pages 155-190

    6. Single-Trial Multisensory Learning and Memory Retrieval

      • Micah M. Murray, Holger F. Sperdin
      Pages 191-208

  6. Visuo-Tactile Integration

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 209-209
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    2. Multisensory Texture Perception

      • Roberta L. Klatzky, Susan J. Lederman
      Pages 211-230

    3. Dorsal and Ventral Cortical Pathways for Visuo-haptic Shape Integration Revealed Using fMRI

      • Thomas W. James, Sunah Kim
      Pages 231-250

    4. Visuo-haptic Perception of Objects and Scenes

      • Fiona N. Newell
      Pages 251-271

    5. Haptic Face Processing and Its Relation to Vision

      • Susan J. Lederman, Roberta L. Klatzky, Ryo Kitada
      Pages 273-300
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About this book

It should come as no surprise to those interested in sensory processes that its research history is among the longest and richest of the many systematic efforts to understand how our bodies function. The continuing obsession with sensory systems is as much a re?ection of the fundamental need to understand how we experience the physical world as it is to understand how we become who we are based on those very experiences. The senses function as both portal and teacher, and their individual and collective properties have fascinated scientists and philosophers for millennia. In this context, the attention directed toward specifying their properties on a sense-by-sense basis that dominated sensory research in the 20th century seems a prelude to our current preoccupation with how they function in concert. Nevertheless, it was the concentrated effort on the operational principles of in- vidual senses that provided the depth of understanding necessary to inform current efforts to reveal how they act cooperatively. We know that the information provided by any individual sensory modality is not always veridical, but is subject to a myriad of modality-speci?c distortions. Thus, the brain’s ability to compare across the senses and to integrate the information they provide is not only a way to examine the accuracy of any individual sensory channel but also a way to enhance the collective information they make available to the brain.

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“This is an excellent study of auditory and visual processing in synchrony or at least close to ideal concurrent operations in the cerebral cortex of the monkey and human brains. … Anyone who does research in auditory, visual, decision making processes, speech, and vocalization will benefit greatly from this marvelous book. Neurophysiologists and primatologists should be very interested in this work.” (Joseph J. Grenier, Amazon.com, August, 2014)

“In this work for academic researchers and graduate students, international contributors from major laboratories explain the mechanisms of multisensory integration, with a focus on the visual, auditory, and tactile sensory modalities. They present evidence from studies of humans and nonhuman primates using various modalities including intracranial electrophysiological recording, noninvasive electroencephalography, functional magnetic resonance imaging, and computational modeling. … The book is illustrated with b&w and color images.” (SciTech Book News, December, 2010)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Inst. Medizinische Psychologie (IMP), Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

    Jochen Kaiser

  • Abt. Neurophysiologie, MPI für Hirnforschung, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

    Marcus Johannes Naumer

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Multisensory Object Perception in the Primate Brain

  • Editors: Jochen Kaiser, Marcus Johannes Naumer

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5615-6

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science + Business Media, LLC 2010

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-5614-9Published: 13 July 2010

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-8206-3Published: 19 September 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-5615-6Published: 03 July 2010

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 383

  • Topics: Neurosciences, Neurobiology, Cognitive Psychology

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