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SUMMARY:BMI Seminar // The Multisensory Scaffold for Perception and Memory
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DESCRIPTION:Micah Murray The LINE (Laboratory for Investigative Neurophysi
 ology) Department of Radiology and Department of Clinical Neurosciences\, 
 University Hospital Center and University of Lausanne\, Switzerland & EEG 
 Brain Mapping Core\, Center for Biomedical Imaging\, Lausanne\, Switzerlan
 d & Department of Ophthalmology\, Fondation Asile des Aveugles\, Universit
 y of Lausanne\, Switzerland & Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences\, 
 Vanderbilt University\, Nashville\, TN\, USA\nI will summarise our efforts
  to identify the brain mechanisms and behavioural relevance of multisensor
 y interactions in humans. This work in turn has wide-reaching consequences
  on our understanding of the organization of the brain\, the functional se
 lectivity of low-level cortices\, and plasticity across the lifespan. Acro
 ss studies we have used combinations of psychophysics\, ERPs\, fMRI and TM
 S\, taking advantage of innovations in signal processing to yield greater 
 mechanistic interpretability of the data. Several general conclusions are 
 supported by the collective data. First\, (near) primary cortices are loci
  of multisensory convergence and interactions. Second\, these effects occu
 r at early latencies (i.e. <100ms post-stimulus onset). Third\, these effe
 cts directly impact behaviour and perception. Fourth\, multisensory intera
 ctions are context-contingent. One the one hand\, they affect not only cur
 rent stimulus processing\, but also later unisensory recognition. Current 
 unisensory (auditory or visual) object recognition and brain activity are 
 incidentally affected by prior single-trial multisensory experiences\; the
  efficacy of which is predictable from an individual’s spatio-temporal d
 ynamics of multisensory interactions. We then extend such findings across 
 the lifespan to show how multisensory processes may be yoked together. Fin
 ally\, examples of multisensory processes at the service of rehabilitation
  are presented. Together\, these data underscore how multisensory research
  is changing long-held models of functional brain organization and percept
 ion in both health\, across the lifespan\, and in disease and its remediat
 ion.\n 
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