SENSORY INTEGRATION AND PERCEPTUAL PROCESSES

 

A. Physiology of the senses

1. Exteroception

a) Audition

b) Vision

c)  Smell               

d) Taste           

e) Touch

2. Proprioception

a) Muscular proprioception

b) Vestibular proprioception

 

B. Neural bases for multisensory integration : from unimodal to plurimodal information

1.  The first integrative stages: neural networks

2.  Integrative p athways

a)  Visual pathways         

b)  Auditory pathways

c)  Somatosensory pathways

d)  Vestibular pathways

 

C. From sensation to perception             

1.  Sensory redundancies and specificities

              a)  Vicariances

             b)  Complementary

2. The senses combine for building perception

                         a) Multimodal interactions

                         b) Sensory recovering and substitution : example in blind people

  c) Sensory weighting and maximum likelihood estimations

3.  The senses verify brain's hypotheses

a)  Perceptual illusions

b)  Motor consequences of motion illusions

c)  Context influences

d)  Learning influences: ex : sport training