Multisensory perception

Our senses provide multiple signals for perception, but those signals are noisy, incomplete, and often ambiguous. Perception therefore depends on how the brain combines evidence from vision, touch, audition, proprioception, memory, and action.

The work in this area asks when signals are integrated, when they are kept separate, and how integration changes with spatial, temporal, or structural discrepancies. It also examines how perception depends on action: the information available during an interaction changes with the movements performed and the property being judged.

These questions connect basic perception with computational models of cue integration, temporal recalibration, body ownership, virtual interaction, and haptic design.