{"id":8490,"date":"2019-05-22T16:08:16","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/multisensory_cue_integration\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:08:16","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:08:16","slug":"multisensory_cue_integration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/multisensory_cue_integration\/","title":{"rendered":"Multisensory cue integration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The process by which separatesensory cues to (typically) the same event in the external environment arecombined (integrated) into a single multisensory percept. &nbsp;Recent models of this process have argued thatmature adults achieve this in an optimal way via&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/itl.nist.gov\/div898\/handbook\/apr\/section4\/apr412.htm\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/itl.nist.gov\/div898\/handbook\/apr\/section4\/apr412.htm?target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">maximum likelihood estimation<\/a>&nbsp;that is they weight each cue in the combined estimate in accordance with itsreliability (Ernst &amp; Banks, 2002).<\/p>\n<p>See&nbsp;Likelihood ratio (LR), Intersensory perceptual narrowing, Intersensory redundancy hypothesis,&nbsp;Superior colliculus<\/p>\n<p>Ernst, M.O., &amp; Banks,M.S. (2002). Humans integrate visual and haptic information in a statisticallyoptimal fashion. <span class=\"\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">Nature<\/span>, <span class=\"\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">415<\/span>, 429-433.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The process by which separatesensory cues to (typically) the same event in the external environment arecombined (integrated) into a single multisensory percept. &nbsp;Recent models of this process have argued thatmature adults achieve this in an optimal way via&nbsp;maximum likelihood estimation&nbsp;that is they weight each cue in the combined estimate in accordance with itsreliability (Ernst &amp; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/multisensory_cue_integration\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Multisensory cue integration&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}