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Progress in multisensory integration during self motion processing

ZHANG Ying-Ying¹, JIANG Dan-Qing¹, LI Sha-Sha¹, LIANG Pei-Ji^2,*, CHEN Ai-Hua¹

¹ey Laboratory of Brain Functional Genomics (Ministry of Education & Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality), School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China；²chool of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China

Abstract

In the daily life, we perceive the world around us by integrating multiple sensory cues (visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory, tactile, vestibular and proprioceptive) to create a coherent, reliable representation that allows us to interact meaningfully with the environment. The integration of different sensory information is necessary for our perception, motor transformation, decision making, learning and memory. In the past decades, many interdisciplinary researchers have been attracted to the field of multisensory research, and tremendous advances have been made in this field. We review the researches on multisensory integration during self-motion perception in the past decades from the candidate areas, the integration principles and the neural correlation of the behaviors, with the intention to provide a comprehensive source for those interested in understanding the neural substrates for multisensory integration. Meanwhile, we also provide a prospect for the future research in this field.

Key words: self-motion perception; multisensory integration ; vestibular ; integration principles ; reference frame

Received: 2017-05-03　　Accepted: 2017-09-19

Corresponding author: 梁培基　　E-mail: pjliang@sjtu.edu.cn

DOI: 10.13294/j.aps.2017.0068

Citing This Article：

ZHANG Ying-Ying, JIANG Dan-Qing, LI Sha-Sha, LIANG Pei-Ji, CHEN Ai-Hua. Progress in multisensory integration during self motion processing. Acta Physiol Sin 2017; 69 (5): 693-702 (in Chinese with English abstract).