The influence of one sensory modality on another in unisensory areas, altering gain, timing, or tuning, without creating a joint multisensory representation

An area of sensory space (or on the retina) in which a given stimulus is effective in activating a specific neuron, thereby affecting its firing rate

A neuron that possesses more than one receptive field, critically requiring those fields to be in spatial register with one another

Convergent processing where inputs from two or more modalities are combined to yield a nonlinear response that cannot be predicted from unisensory responses alone

The principle that the facilitation of a multisensory neuronal response is maximal when the responses to the individual unimodal inputs are weakest