Shared neural underpinnings of multisensory integration and trial-by-trial perceptual recalibration in humans

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Perception adapts to mismatching multisensory information, both when different cues appear simultaneously and when they appear sequentially. While both multisensory integration and adaptive trial-by-trial recalibration are central for behavior, it remains unknown whether they are mechanistically linked and arise from a common neural substrate. To relate the neural underpinnings of sensory integration and recalibration, we measured whole-brain magnetoencephalography while human participants performed an audio-visual ventriloquist task. Using single-trial multivariate analysis, we localized the perceptually-relevant encoding of multisensory information within and between trials. While we found neural signatures of multisensory integration within temporal and parietal regions, only medial superior parietal activity encoded past and current sensory information and mediated the perceptual recalibration within and between trials. These results highlight a common neural substrate of sensory integration and perceptual recalibration, and reveal a role of medial parietal regions in linking present and previous multisensory evidence to guide adaptive behavior.

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The behavioral data presented in Figure 1 and LDA performance data and source regression data used to calculate the t-values in Figures 2-5, as well as data for Figure 4-figure supplement 1 have been deposited on Dryad (https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.t0p9c93).

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Hame Park

Department for Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Biology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany

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hame.park@uni-bielefeld.de

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The authors declare that no competing interests exist.

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Christoph Kayser

Department for Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Biology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany

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christoph.kayser@uni-bielefeld.de

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H2020 European Research Council (ERC-2014-CoG No 646657)

Christoph Kayser

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

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Human subjects: All participants submitted written informed consent. The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and was approved by the local ethics committee. Ethics Application No: 300140078 (College of Science and Engineering, University of Glasgow).

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