Multistability in perception: Binding sensory modalities
Résumé
Multistability occurs when a single ambiguous stimulus produces alternations between different percepts in the mind of the observer. For more than two centuries, it has been a major conceptual and experimental tool for investigating perceptual awareness in vision. This issue presents recent novel advances on multistability in several sensory modalities (audition, speech, touch, olfaction), with a combination of psychophysical, physiological, and modelling approaches. Multistability then becomes a powerful and coherent framework for addressing the issue of binding: binding sensory information into perceptual scenes, binding sensory inputs across modalities, and binding our knowledge of neural processing in various sensory modalities.