Domaine de recherche principal:
Neurophysiology / systems neuroscience
Available to host a PhD student
Labelisation ENP:
2016
Centre de recherche / Institut:
Laboratoire Jean Perrin
Code unité de recherche:
UMR 8237
Our brain needs to constantly fuse sensory information detected by our multiple senses in order to produce a seamless coherent representation of the world. Rather than being the exception, this binding process is ubiquitous to sensory-motor integration and is implicated in most cognitive functions. Its impairment is a cause of various pathologies, such as schizophrenia or autism. Multisensory processing operates on all brain levels from primary cortices over subcortical structures up to higher associative centers, while the smallest operational units are single multisensory neurons.