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- Offers a comprehensive, up-to-date overview of the current state of knowledge on multisensory processes
- Coverage includes basic principles, specific interactions between the senses, crossmodal correspondences and the clinical aspects of multisensory processes
- Includes psychophysical, neuroanatomical, neurophysiological and neuroimaging approaches
Table of ContentsSECTION I: FOUNDATIONS OF MULTISENSORY PERCEPTION- 1. Bouba-Kiki: Cross-domain resonance and the origins of synesthesia, metaphor, and words in the human mind
- 2. Philosophical insights
- 3. Neural development of multisensory integration
- 4. The development of multisensory processes for perceiving the environment and the self
- 5. Computational models of multisensory integration
- 6. Multisensory contributions to object recognition and memory across the lifespan
SECTION II: MULTISENSORY INTERACTIONS- 7. Visuo-haptic object perception
- 8. Multisensory processes in body ownership
- 9. Visual-vestibular interactions
- 10. Multisensory flavor perception: A cognitive neuroscience perspective
- 11. Audiovisual crossmodal correspondences: Behavioural consequences and neural underpinnings
- 12. How do crossmodal correspondences and multisensory processes relate to synesthesia?
- 13. Synesthesia: The current state of the field
- 14. How synesthesia may lead to enhanced memory
SECTION III: CLINICAL APPLICATIONS- 15. Task-selectivity in the sensory deprived brain and sensory substitution approaches for clinical practice: evidence from blindness
- 16. Crossmodal neuroplasticity in deafness: Evidence from animal models and clinical populations
- 17. Neurodevelopmental and neuropsychiatric disorders affecting multisensory processes
- 18. Disorders of body representation
- 19. Hemianopia, spatial neglect and their multisensory rehabilitation
- 20. Mirror therapy
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