The Complex Interplay Between Multisensory Integration and Perceptual Awareness

O. Deroy, N. Faivre (), C. Lunghi, C. Spence, M. Aller and U. Noppeney
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O. Deroy: Center for the study of the senses - University of London [London]
N. Faivre: CES - Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
C. Lunghi: Department of Translational Research on New Technologies in Medicine and Surgery - UniPi - University of Pisa [Italy] = Università di Pisa [Italia] = Université de Pise [Italie]
C. Spence: Crossmodal Research Laboratoty - University of Oxford
M. Aller: Computational Neuroscience and Cognitive Robotics Centre - University of Birmingham [Birmingham]
U. Noppeney: Computational Neuroscience and Cognitive Robotics Centre - University of Birmingham [Birmingham]

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Abstract: The integration of information has been considered a hallmark of human consciousness, as it requires information being globally available via widespread neural interactions. Yet the complex interdependencies between multisensory integration and perceptual awareness, or consciousness, remain to be defined. While perceptual awareness has traditionally been studied in a single sense, in recent years we have witnessed a surge of interest in the role of multisensory integration in perceptual awareness. Based on a recent IMRF symposium on multisensory awareness, this review discusses three key questions from conceptual, methodological and experimental perspectives: (1) What do we study when we study multisensory awareness? (2) What is the relationship between multisensory integration and perceptual awareness? (3) Which experimental approaches are most promising to characterize multisensory awareness? We hope that this review paper will provoke lively discussions, novel experiments, and conceptual considerations to advance our understanding of the multifaceted interplay between multisensory integration and consciousness.

Keywords: perceptual awareness; crossmodal integration; Multisensory integration; metacognition; consciousness; perception (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-03
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Published in Multisensory Research, 2016, ⟨10.1163/22134808-00002529⟩

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DOI: 10.1163/22134808-00002529

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