Development and Neuroplasticity of Multisensory Integration

作为人类，我们处理感官信息的方式极大地影响着我们感知世界和与世界互动的方式。我们的感知所基于的感官信息本质上是多感官的，但我们对神经系统如何发展到跨感官整合信息知之甚少。这项工作旨在确定这一基本过程背后的基本神经机制和电路，这些神经机制是如何发展的，以及它们是如何随着经验而变化的。因此，拟议的工作将揭示塑造人类经验的一些最基本方面的神经机制，特别是我们如何感知和与环境互动。

How we as humans process sensory information greatly impacts the manner with which we perceive and interact with the world. The sensory information upon which our perceptions are based is multisensory in nature yet we know surprisingly little about how neural systems develop to integrate information across senses. This work aims to determine basic neural mechanisms and circuitry that underlie this fundamental process, how these neural mechanisms develop, and how they change with experience. Thus, the proposed work will lay bare the neural mechanisms that shape some of the most fundamental aspects of the human experience, particularly how we perceive and interact with our environment.