Description
This article discusses how different senses can be used to perceive and navigate the world. It explains how the nervous system integrates information from different senses in order to create a coherent representation of space.
The possession of multiple ways of sensing the world offers many benefits. Combining information from different senses also poses many challenges for the nervous system. This title presents an overview of how information from the different senses gets integrated in order to construct useful representations of external space.