Although sensory perception and neurobiology are traditionally investigated one modality at a time, real world behaviour and perception are driven by the integration of information from multiple sensory sources. Mounting evidence suggests that the neural underpinnings of multisensory integration extend into early sensory processing. This article examines the notion that neocortical operations a...

In conventional “sense-think-act” control architectures, perception is reduced to a passive collection of sensory information, followed by a mapping onto a prestructured internal world model. For biological agents, Sensorimotor Contingency Theory (SMCT) posits that perception is not an isolated processing step, but is constituted by knowing and exercising the law-like relations between actions ...

The use of BDI-agents seems a good fit to realize intelligent behavior for virtual humans. One of the problems of the BDI-paradigm when an agent becomes embodied in a virtual environment is the lack of control over perception [3]. While performing a task, humans tend to direct their attention to selected information from the environment which can support them in achieving the task. As attention...

How does a listener find and follow the speech of a talker? Many classic and contemporary accounts of speech perception start with a coherent sensory sample of speech already established, as if the perceptual world consisted solely of speech, and as if no more than a single talker ever spoke at once. Long-established and recent characterizations alike have cast the fundamental problem of speech...