Temporal alignment of multisensory signals

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The brain encodes sight, sound and touch separately yet our perception is coherent and multisensory. How the brain achieves this is puzzling for it faces a major problem: each sense has a different temporal latency and maps space in different coordinates. Exploiting a new method that revealed a very fast temporal realignment process, this project examines relative timing between touch, vision and hearing and their interaction with motor action to reveal the full scope of sensory and motor recalibration. By determining the spatial coordinates in which recalibration occurs, and examining interactions between on-going temporal modulations once aligned, this project aims to advance knowledge of multisensory integration.