Crossmodal Space and Crossmodal Attention

Edited by Charles Spence and Jon Driver

Many organisms possess multiple sensory systems, such as vision, hearing, touch, smell, and taste. The possession of multiple ways of sensing the world offers many benefits. However, combining information from different senses also poses many challenges for the nervous system. In recent years there has been dramatic progress in understanding how information from the different senses gets integrated in order to construct useful representations of external space. This volume brings together the leading researchers from a broad range of scientific approaches to present the first overview of this central topic in cognitive neuroscience.

Crossmodal Space and Crossmodal Attention

Edited by Charles Spence and Jon Driver

Description

Many organisms possess multiple sensory systems, such as vision, hearing, touch, smell, and taste. The possession of such multiple ways of sensing the world offers many benefits. These benefits arise not only because each modality can sense different aspects of the environment, but also because different senses can respond jointly to the same external object or event, thus enriching the overall experience-for example, looking at an individual while listening to them speak. However, combining the information from different senses also poses many challenges for the nervous system. In recent years, there has been dramatic progress in understanding how information from different sensory modalities gets integrated in order to construct useful representations of external space; and in how such multimodal representations constrain spatial attention. Such progress has involved numerous different disciplines, including neurophysiology, experimental psychology, neurological work with brain-damaged patients, neuroimaging studies, and computational modelling. This volume brings together the leading researchers from all these approaches, to present the first integrative overview of this central topic in cognitive neuroscience.

Crossmodal Space and Crossmodal Attention

Edited by Charles Spence and Jon Driver

Introductory comments
1. Development of multisensory spatial integration, Adnrew King
2. Crossmodal spatial interactions in subcortical and cortical circuits, Barry E Stein, Terrence R Stanford, Mark T Wallace, J William Vaughan & Wan Jiang
3. A system of multimodal areas in the primate brain, Michael S A Graziano, Charles S Gross, Charlotte S R Taylor & Tirin Moore
4. Neuropsychological evidence for multimodal representations of space near specific body parts, Elisabetta Ladavas & Alessandro Farne
5. Multimodal spatial representations in the primate parietal lobe, Yale E Cohen & Richard A Andersen
6. A computational neural theory of multisensory spatial representations, Alexandre Pouget, Sophie Deneve & Jean-Rene Duhamel
7. The psychology of multimodal perception, Paul Bertelson & Beatrice de Gelder
8. Crossmodal spatial attention: evidence from human performance, Jon Driver & Charles Spence
9. Electrophysiology of human crossmodal spatial attention, Martin Eimer
10. Functional imaging of crossmodal spatial representations and crossmodal spatial attention, Emiliano Macaluso & Jon Drive
11. Exogenous spatial cuing studies of human crossmodal attention and multisensory integration, Charles Spence, John McDonald & Jon Driver

Crossmodal Space and Crossmodal Attention

Edited by Charles Spence and Jon Driver

Author Information

Contributors:

Richard A. Andersen, California Institute of Technology, USA
Paul Bertelson, Free University of Brussels, Belgium and Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Yale E Cohen, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, USA
Béatrice de Gelder, Tilburg University, The Netherlands and Free University of Brussels, Belgium
Sophie Deneve, University of Rochester, New York, USA and Institut des Sciences Cognitives, Lyon, France
Jon Driver, University College London, UK
Jean-Rene Duhamel, CNRS, Lyon, France
Martin Eimer, University of London, UK
Alessandro Farnè, Centre of Cognitive Neuroscience, Cesena and Department of Psychology, University of Bologna, Italy
Michael S.A. Graziano, Princeton University, New Jersey, USA
Charles G. Gross, Princeton University, New Jersey, USA
Wan Jiang, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, North Carolina, USA
Andrew J. King University Laboratory of Physiology, Oxford, UK
Elisabetta Ladavas, Centre of Cognitive Neuroscience, Cesena and Department of Psychology, University of Bologna, Italy
Emiliano Macaluso, University College London, UK
John McDonald, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada
Tirin Moore, Princeton University, New Jersey, USA
Alexandre Pouget, University of Rochester, New York, USA
Charles Spence, University of Oxford, UK
Terrence R. Stanford, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, North Carolina, USA
Barry E. Stein, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, North Carolina, USA
Charlotte S.R. Taylor, Princeton University, New Jersey, USA
J. William Vaughan, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, North Carolina, USA
Mark T. Wallace, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, North Carolina, USA