TY - JOUR AU1 - Gori, Monica AU2 - Mazzilli, Giacomo AU3 - Sandini, Giulio AU4 - Burr, David AU5 - AB - Orig inal r e se arch a rticle published: 13 April 2011 doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00055 Cross-sensory facilitation reveals neural interactions between visual and tactile motion in humans 1 2 1 3 Monica Gori *, Giacomo Mazzilli , Giulio Sandini and David Burr Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Genova, Italy School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK Dipartimento di Psicologia, Università Degli Studi di Firenze, Florence, Italy Edited by: Many recent studies show that the human brain integrates information across the different senses Nadia Bolognini, University of and that stimuli of one sensory modality can enhance the perception of other modalities. Here Milano-Bicocca, Italy we study the processes that mediate cross-modal facilitation and summation between visual Angelo Maravita, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy and tactile motion. We find that while summation produced a generic, non-specific improvement of thresholds, probably reflecting higher-order interaction of decision signals, facilitation reveals Reviewed by: Alberto Gallace, University of a strong, direction-specic i fi nteraction, which we believe ree fl cts sensory interactions. We Milano-Bicocca, Italy measured visual and tactile velocity discrimination thresholds over a wide range of base velocities Claudio Brozzoli, Karolinska Institutet, and conditions. Thresholds for both visual and tactile stimuli TI - Cross-Sensory Facilitation Reveals Neural Interactions between Visual and Tactile Motion in Humans JF - Frontiers in Psychology DO - 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00055 DA - 2011-01-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/unpaywall/cross-sensory-facilitation-reveals-neural-interactions-between-visual-yEbgZhQdaZ DP - DeepDyve ER -