A Conversation with Dora Angelaki

Gary Stix: You gave a talk here yesterday at the conference on how neurons that process sensory information can predict how an animal behaves during a simple perceptual task—I think it was a monkey moved in the world? Can you tell us briefly what the field of multisensory integration is attempting to do? Understanding how one sense works is difficult enough, so I assume that trying to integrate information from multiple senses is even more difficult. Are neuroscientists so attracted by this problem because it’s a really tough challenge?