Adaptation of multisensory processing to changing priors and sensory evidence (A01)

• Subject Area: Cognitive, Systems and Behavioural Neurobiology ; General, Cognitive and Mathematical Psychology ; Human Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience
• Term: since 2016
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 261402652

Project A1 investigates how multisensory causal inference, the process of deciding whether or not two sensory inputs belong to the same event and should be integrated, adapts to changes in the reliability of the sensory inputs (sensory evidence) and acquired knowledge (priors). By combining virtual reality scenarios, electrophysiological recordings and developmental studies in humans, the project will clarify (1) how sensory evidence and learned priors interact in the brain, (2) how these processes emerge during ontogenetic development, and (3) how context-specific they are. Results will extend computational models of multisensory integration from a developmental perspective.

• DFG Programme: CRC/Transregios
• Subproject of: TRR 169: Crossmodal Learning: Adaptivity, Prediction and Interaction
• International Connection: China
• Applicant Institution: Universität Hamburg
• Project Heads: Dr. Patrick Bruns; Professorin Dr. Xiaolan Fu; Professor Dr. Bo Hong, until 12/2019; Professorin Dr. Brigitte Röder