A Conversation with Dora Angelaki
- Gary Stix
Dora Angelaki is the Wilhelmina Robertson Professor and Chair of the Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, with a joint appointment in the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Psychology, Rice University.
- Senior Editor, Scientific American
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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?
Dr. Angelaki:This is only part of the answer. In the laboratory, we like to simplify the enormous task of understanding how the brain works. Traditionally, neuroscience …
