Lecture 2: Multisensory integration
Learn the world
Although our capacity for attentional processing is limited, we do learn the world from multiple sensory channels.
Multisensory integration means the processing of one channel may influence the processing of another channel, and such interaction will shape our experience.
Cool study
Researchers from the University of Oxford demonstrated that when people are eating crisps, the ‘sound’ of a crisp bit will affect the taste of crisps. And here comes a critical conclusion: our mouth feels things by integrating multiple sensory experiences.
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