Barry E. Stein, Terrence R. Stanford, Mark T. Wallace, Vaughan I. William, Wan Jiang, »Crossmodal spatial interactions in subcortical and cortical circuits«, in: Crossmodal space and crossmodal attention, (eds.) Charles Spence, Jon Driver (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2004)

»Despite the creation of a means of segregating information on a sense-by-sense basis, evolution did not eliminate the ability to benefit from the advantages of pooling information across sensory modalities. Rather, it created an interesting duality: some parts of the brain became specialized for dealing with information within individual senses, and others for pooling information across senses.«

»[Converging multisensory information] add depth and complexity to our sensory experiences and, as will be shown below, speed and enhance the accuracy of our judgements of environmental events in a manner that could not have been achieved using only independent channels of sensory information.«

@incollection{Stein.2004,
 author = {Stein, Barry E. and Stanford, Terrence R. and Wallace, Mark T. and Vaughan I. William and Jiang, Wan},
 title = {Crossmodal spatial interactions in subcortical and cortical circuits},
 urldate = {05.07.2009},
 pages = {25-50},
 publisher = {Oxford Univ. Press},
 isbn = {0198524862},
 editor = {Spence, Charles and Driver, Jon},
 booktitle = {Crossmodal space and crossmodal attention},
 year = {2004},
 address = {Oxford}
}