Lecture 22

Question 1

Multi sensory integration

Answer 1

perception that arises between 2 or more sensory modalities

Question 2

McGurk effect

Answer 2

visual info overrules auditory

Question 3

ventriloquist

Answer 3

visual info overrules auditory

Question 4

flashing circles

Answer 4

auditory info overrules visual

Question 5

ventriloquist effect

Answer 5

brain translocates the sound signal to be consistent with visual signal

Question 6

binding problem

Answer 6

how does the brain know what stimuli from different senses to bind together
multisensory neurons

Question 7

grandmother cells

Answer 7

receive convergent input from neurons / populations of neurons at earliest levels

only responds to particular COMBINATIONS of features

Question 8

feature detectors

Answer 8

each neuron responds to a unique feauture of the stimulus

complex features are coded by a whole population of distributed neurons

Question 9

synesthesia

Answer 9

disorder of perceptual binding

stimulation of one modality is an experience of another