No need to talk, I know you: familiarity influences early multisensory integration in a songbird's brain

It is well known that visual information can affect auditory perception, as in the famous McGurk effect, but little is known concerning the processes involved. To address this issue, we used the best-developed animal model to study language-related processes in the brain: songbirds. European starlin...

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Main Authors: Isabelle GEORGE, Jean-Pierre RICHARD, Hugo COUSILLAS, Martine HAUSBERGER
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2011-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnbeh.2010.00193/full