Overview

We perceive and understand our environment using many sensory systems-vision, touch, hearing, taste, smell, and proprioception. These multiple sensory modalities not only give us complementary sources of information about the environment but also an understanding that is richer and more complex than one modality alone could achieve. As adults, we integrate the multiple signals from these sense organs into unified functional representations. However, the ease with which we accomplish this feat belies its computational complexity. Not only do the senses convey information about the environment in different neural codes, but the relationship between the senses frequently changes when, for example, the body changes posture (e.g. when the eyes move in their sockets), or indeed shape, when the body grows across development. These computational problems prompt an important question which represents the key focus of this book: How do we develop the ability to integrate the senses? While there is a considerable literature on the development of single senses, such as vision or hearing, few books have considered the development of all our senses, and more importantly, how they develop the ability to work with each other.This book is unique in exploring this extraordinary feat of human nature - how we develop the ability to integrate our senses. It will be an important book for all those in the fields of cognitive and developmental neuroscience.

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Author:   Andrew J. Bremner (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK) ,  David J. Lewkowicz (Florida Atlantic University, USA) ,  Charles Spence (University of Oxford, UK)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.70cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 25.30cm
Weight:   0.862kg
ISBN:  

9780199586059

ISBN 10:   0199586055
Pages:   394
Publication Date:   21 June 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Andrew J. Bremner, David J. Lewkowicz, and Charles Spence: The multisensory approach to development Typical development of multisensory processes from early gestation to old age 2: Benoist Schaal and Karine Durand: The role of olfaction in human multisensory development 3: Charles Spence: The development and decline of multisensory flavour perception: Assessing the role of visual (colour) cues on the perception of taste and flavour 4: Arlette Streri: Crossmodal interactions in the human newborn: New answers to Molyneux's question 5: Andrew J. Bremner, Nicholas P. Holmes, and Charles Spence: The development of multisensory representations of the body and of the space around the body 6: Marko Nardini and Dorothy Cowie: The development of multisensory balance, locomotion, orientation and navigation 7: David J. Lewkowicz: The unexpected effects of experience on the development of multisensory perception in primates 8: Lorraine E. Bahrick and Robert Lickliter: The role of intersensory redundancy in early perceptual, cognitive, and social development 9: Salvador Soto-Faraco, Marco Calabresi, Jordi Navarra, Janet F. Werker, and David J. Lewkowicz: The development of audiovisual speech perception 10: Daphne Maurer, Laura C. Gibson, and Ferrinne Spector: Infant synaesthesia: New insights into the development of multisensory perception 11: Paul J. Laurienti and Christina E. Hugenschmidt: Multisensory processes in old age Atypical multisensory development 12: Elisabeth L. Hill, Laura Crane, and Andrew J. Bremner: Developmental disorders and multisensory perception 13: Brigitte Röder: Sensory deprivation and the development of multisensory integration Neural computational and evolutionary mechanisms in multisensory development 14: Mark T. Wallace, Dipwanita Ghose, Aaron R. Nidiffer, Matthew C. Fister, and Juliane Krueger Fister: The development of multisensory integration in subcortical and cortical brain networks 15: Denis Mareschal, Gert Westermann, and Nadja Althaus: In search of the mechanisms of multisensory development 16: Asif A. Ghazanfar: The evolution of multisensory vocal communication in primates and the influence of developmental timing

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This book is a good resource for readers seeking a current review of material related to multisensory development, particularly those interested in human development, which is its main focus. To my knowledge, there is no existing text that has compiled reviews of this development which are collectively as broad and deep as those here. Readers from different backgrounds will find different aspects appealing. Overall, the book is an enjoyable read, and the relative brevity and narrative style of the different chapters makes it an easy but competent volume that is neither too dense nor too breezy. --B A Rowland, Perception

This book is a god resource for readers seeking a current review of material related to multisensory development, particularly those interested in human development, which is its main focus. ... Independently readable chapters provide effective overviews of key issues in vision. The narrative is clean and clear. Michael Herzog, Perception

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