Talk:Multisensory integration

Advocate not joining multimodal with multisensor

While the two topics are related at some level, they are not the same. Multi-sensor data fusion may or may not require multi-modal integration.

Sound and sight together is multi-modal. But sight and sight is unimodal, multisensor stereoscopic vision.

Kinesis from the shoulder, the elbow, the hip, the knee and ankle fuse to signal that the jump is of the proper height / strength.

Adding vision to that kinesis tells us the jump shot is ready to be released, and with how much force and in what direction.

People who have sensory (modal) integration dysfunction do not have the same kinds of problems that people with discrete sensor (unimodal) intergration dysfunction.

I appreciate that there is not a lot written on either topic, so it seems like a viable strategy to compose one article and split it later.

That's not the route I would advocate, in the interests of [a] clarity in the interim and [b] signalling the need for both articles to be written in a robust manner.

I would also suggest not joining these topics.

I think I agree. The neuroanatomoy and conectivity is not equivelant as far as I knw. I must point out that I know little about multi-sensor data fusion, but I would suppose that such fusion would not require the same long distance connctivity (I may be way off). However, I disagree that their is little research on multisensory integration. On the contrary I think a vast amount has been writen in the past 10-15 years. Ralphmcd (talk)# —Preceding undated comment added 21:03, 28 September 2010 (UTC).

I agree to not joining these topics. Multisensory (not multisensor !) refers to perception by living organisms, while multimodal refers to

a) technical systems with different types of input and to b) multiple modes (or procedures). I propose to split this into two topics:

• Multisensory integration (perception)"
• Multimodal integration (technical procedure)"

http://www.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de/de/forschung/fg/noppeneygroup/multisensory-integration.html

http://www.amazon.de/Multimodal-Integration-Medical-Ultrasound-interventions/dp/3836472287

Please write your feedback here, not on my talk page! Hans-Werner34 (talk) 17:35, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

Links in the article

This article would be more useful and fit better in the common style of Wikipedia if it provided relevant links to other articles in wikipedia as well as external links to the sources cited (many of them are likely to be found online). The concept of providing in-text links to articles further explaining words and concepts is one of the most useful features inherent to the web. I guess someone is allready working on this right as I write...

These sites could be useful for finding online versions of the sources: http://scholar.google.com/ http://www.neurology.org/ http://www.sciencemag.org/ http://www.nature.com/

-Student from Helsinki 193.167.2.30 11:45, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Yes I agree. I plan to add a number of citations, as I happen to have a folder full of relevant papers Ralphmcd (talk) 21:05, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

Make more of dispute between sensory modularity and integration

There seems to be a reasonably heated debate between those who think that low level sensory integration is minimal, and those who think it is wide spread - or even reject the idea that senses are in fact unimodal. I think this may be better nearer to the start, as it would set the stage for some of the further dicussion of the minuti of integration, such as anatomical links and multisensory illusions. I don't want this to be a page about this conflict entirely - but it might draw the reader in and show how the field has changed over the past 15 years. See "Ghazanfar & Schroeder 2006 from authors lab" Ralphmcd (talk) 21:24, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

Indented line: Of course I will only do this after recieving some feedback here . Ralphmcd (talk) 21:26, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

Sorry that my wiki code is a bit poor. I'm a newbie Ralphmcd (talk) 21:29, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

Binding problem

I'm not sure that the binding problem deserves quite such a prominant place in the article. It is part of the area - but those parts that are essentially the soft problem of binding. It is just a matter of further research to determine how the senses integrate - and that is essentialy multimodal integration research itself. The hard problem is often less investigated in MI litriture and I'm not quite sure why it is so high up the page - might make people think that undestanding MI would let us understand the hard binding problem and that that is the aim of MI research. Just a thought. Let me know what you think Ralphmcd (talk) 23:07, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

Quite some time later, but I would agree somewhat with this. It might be sufficient to simply state a more succinct definition of the binding problem. As it is, the text is possibly too philosophically-oriented to match with the tone/scope of the rest of the article. Tazanzabub (talk) 10:31, 18 October 2023 (UTC)

semantics: Multimodal vs. Multisensory

In a review paper authors like Stein, Meredith, Wallace, Burr and others argue that this article should be called Multi sensory integration . I don't think we shoud ignore this.

They propose the following terminology:

Term	Definition
Properties of stimuli
Modality-specific	Describes a stimulus (or stimulus property) confined to a single sensory modality
Cross-modal	Describes a complex of two or more modality-specific stimuli from different sensory modalities
Neural or behavioral properties
Unisensory	Describes any neural or behavioral process associated with a single sensory modality
Multisensory	Describes any neural or behavioral process associated with multiple sensory modalities
Multisensory integration	The neural process by which unisensory signals are combined to form a new prod- uct. It is operationally defined as a multi- sensory response (neural or behavioral) that is significantly different from the responses evoked by the modality specific component stimuli
MSI, Multisensory index	The proportionate difference between a multisensory response to a cross-modal stimulus and the unisensory response to the most effective modality-specific com- ponent stimulus
Cross-modal matching	A process by which stimuli from different modalities are compared to estimate their equivalence
Multisensory process	A general descriptor of any multisensory phenomenon (e.g. multisensory integration and cross-modal matching)

R5atom (talk) 09:14, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

LINKS

Neither link cited as footers is available. One requires a journal subscription, the other is an advert for a book. So how relevant are these? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.197.199.181 (talk) 08:43, 11 August 2013 (UTC)