Temporal alignment of multisensory signals

大脑分别对视觉、声音和触觉进行编码，但我们的感知是连贯的和多感官的。大脑如何做到这一点是令人费解的，因为它面临着一个主要问题：每种感觉都有不同的时间延迟，并在不同的坐标下映射空间。这个项目开发了一种新的方法，揭示了一个非常快速的时间调整过程，检查了触觉、视觉和听觉之间的相对计时以及它们与运动动作的相互作用，以揭示感觉和运动重新校准的全部范围。通过确定重新校准发生的空间坐标，并检查一旦对齐正在进行的时间调制之间的相互作用，该项目旨在促进对多感觉整合的了解。

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.