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ArticleBrain sciences2021

Neural Basis of Anticipatory Multisensory Integration.

Linda Fiorini, Marika Berchicci, Elena Mussini, Valentina Bianco, Stefania Lucia, Francesco Di Russo

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Article in Brain sciences, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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Linda FioriniDepartment of Movement, Human and Health Sciences, University of Rome "Foro Italico", 00135 Rome, Italy.
Marika BerchicciDepartment of Movement, Human and Health Sciences, University of Rome "Foro Italico", 00135 Rome, Italy.
Elena MussiniDepartment of Movement, Human and Health Sciences, University of Rome "Foro Italico", 00135 Rome, Italy.
Valentina BiancoDepartment of Movement, Human and Health Sciences, University of Rome "Foro Italico", 00135 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-0044-7075
Stefania LuciaDepartment of Movement, Human and Health Sciences, University of Rome "Foro Italico", 00135 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-5033-2121
Francesco Di RussoDepartment of Movement, Human and Health Sciences, University of Rome "Foro Italico", 00135 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-3127-9433

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Abstract

The brain is able to gather different sensory information to enhance salient event perception, thus yielding a unified perceptual experience of multisensory events. Multisensory integration has been widely studied, and the literature supports the hypothesis that it can occur across various stages of stimulus processing, including both bottom-up and top-down control. However, evidence on anticipatory multisensory integration occurring in the fore period preceding the presentation of the expected stimulus in passive tasks, is missing. By means of event-related potentials (ERPs), it has been recently proposed that visual and auditory unimodal stimulations are preceded by sensory-specific readiness activities. Accordingly, in the present study, we tested the occurrence of multisensory integration in the endogenous anticipatory phase of sensory processing, combining visual and auditory stimuli during unimodal and multimodal passive ERP paradigms. Results showed that the modality-specific pre-stimulus ERP components (i.e., the auditory positivity -aP- and the visual negativity -vN-) started earlier and were larger in the multimodal stimulation compared with the sum of the ERPs elicited by the unimodal stimulations. The same amplitude effect was also present for the early auditory N1 and visual P1 components. This anticipatory multisensory effect seems to influence stimulus processing, boosting the magnitude of early stimulus processing. This paves the way for new perspectives on the neural basis of multisensory integration.

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auditoryERPmultisensory perceptionpassive perceptionsensory preparationvisual

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PMCPMC8301880

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