MIA

Multisensory Integration and Attention

Coordinatore	UNIVERSIDAD POMPEU FABRA    more Spiacenti, non ci sono informazioni su questo coordinatore. Contattare Fabio per maggiori infomrazioni, grazie.
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Spain [ES]
Totale costo	1˙450˙672 €
EC contributo	1˙450˙672 €
Programma	FP7-IDEAS-ERC Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	ERC-2010-StG_20091209
Funding Scheme	ERC-SG
Anno di inizio	2011
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2011-04-01   -   2016-03-31

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	UNIVERSIDAD POMPEU FABRA  Organization address address: PLACA DE LA MERCE 10-12 city: BARCELONA postcode: 8002 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Eva Cognome: Martin Email: send email Telefono: +34 93 542 21 40 Fax: +34 93 542 14 40	ES (BARCELONA)	hostInstitution	1˙450˙672.00
2	UNIVERSIDAD POMPEU FABRA  Organization address address: PLACA DE LA MERCE 10-12 city: BARCELONA postcode: 8002 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Salvador Cognome: Soto-Faraco Email: send email Telefono: +34 93 542 25 34	ES (BARCELONA)	hostInstitution	1˙450˙672.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'The world around us is immensely rich in sensory information, which we perceive through a varied range of different sensory systems (enabling us to feel, hear, see…). Yet, our perceptual experience is not a sensory piecemeal, but a unitary phenomenon brought about by Multisensory Integration mechanisms. MSI is in charge of binding sensory input to create faithful and coherent representations of the environment, an ability that confers important advantages in terms of optimizing behavioural outcomes. For example, people often find it easier to speak with someone when they can see their partner’s face, as lip and facial movements compensate for acoustic noise. The novelty of the project is that it focuses on internal processes, and in particular attention, to be of utmost importance during MSI. Attention enables efficient allocation of limited cognitive and neural resources, and therefore it plays a paramount role in perception, cognition and action. The aim is to understand the interplay between attention and the mechanisms of multisensory integration. Unravelling this interplay presents important challenges but, in return, promises to provide very important insights into how perception is accomplished by the human mind and brain. In particular, the driving hypothesis underlying the present proposal is that objects of perception are multi-sensory defined events, and that attention plays a key role in building up and maintaining these perceptual representations. The strategy is to address this dynamic interplay between MSI and Attention by addressing a set of key specific research questions by means of converging methodological approaches. I propose to undertake this task with the help of a multidisciplinary team of researchers of different backgrounds, and a set of research methods including a behavioural approach (psychophysics in healthy adult humans, developmental studies and neuropsychology) combined with selective use of brain imaging stimulation.'