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Multisensory integration: flexible use of general operations.

Nienke van Atteveldt¹, Micah M Murray², Gregor Thut³

¹Neuroimaging & Neuromodeling group, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Meibergdreef 47, 1105 BA Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Educational Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology & Education and Institute LEARN!, VU University Amsterdam, van der Boechorststraat 1, 1081 BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology & Neuroscience, Maastricht University, P.O. Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands.

|March 25, 2014

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Multisensory integration flexibly adapts to context using universal brain mechanisms like oscillatory phase resetting and divisive normalization. These principles explain how the brain proactively integrates diverse sensory information.

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