Multisensory integration and crossmodal attention effects in the human brain.

Macaluso et al. ([1][1]) provided functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) evidence for multisensory processing in the human brain. In their study, a light presented in the right visual field produced a larger neural response in the left fusiform gyrus, a modality-specific area of visual cortex

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