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J Neurophysiol 80: 1006-1010, 1998;
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The Journal of Neurophysiology Vol. 80 No. 2 August 1998, pp. 1006-1010
Copyright ©1998 The American Physiological Society

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Multisensory Integration in the Superior Colliculus of the Alert Cat

Mark T. Wallace1, M. Alex Meredith2, and Barry E. Stein1

1 Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157; and 2 Department of Anatomy, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia 23298

Wallace, Mark T., M. Alex Meredith, and Barry E. Stein. Multisensory integration in the superior colliculus of the alert cat. J. Neurophysiol. 80: 1006-1010, 1998. The modality convergence patterns, sensory response properties, and principles governing multisensory integration in the superior colliculus (SC) of the alert cat were found to have fundamental similarities to those in anesthetized animals. Of particular interest was the observation that, in a manner indistinguishable from the anesthetized animal, combinations of two different sensory stimuli significantly enhanced the responses of SC neurons above those evoked by either unimodal stimulus. These observations are consistent with the speculation that there is a functional link among multisensory integration in individual SC neurons and cross-modality attentive and orientation behaviors.




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