The Multisensory Revolution: Why Your Brain Is a Sensory Smoothie
From: Scientific American - 01/2013 - page 73
By: Lawrence D. Rosenblum

Our many different senses collaborate even more than previously realized.
What we hear depends a lot on what we see and feel 

Neuroscientists used to think of the brain as a Swiss Army knife with
different regions dedicated exclusively to different forms of sensory
perception, such as sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. 

In the past three decades studies in psychology and neuroscience have
revealed that the brain is an extensively multisensory organ that constantly
melds information from the various senses. 

The multisensory revolution has not only changed the way scientists
understand the function of the brain, it has also suggested new ways to help
the blind and deaf and has improved speech-recognition software. 

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