Perrodin, CatherinePetkov, Chris I.Logothetis, Nikos K.Markram, Henry2009-06-252009-06-252009-06-252008https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/40863[...] Primates are social animals whose communication is based on their conspecifics' vocalizations and facial expressions. Although a lot of work to date has studied the unimodal representation of vocal or facial information, little is known about the way the nervous system supports the processing of communication signals from different sensory modalities to combine them into a coherent audiovisual percept. [... click on "Download fulltext" for full abstract]Sciences et technologie du vivantLife Sciences and TechnologyElectrophysiological recording proceduresVoice areaMonkey vocalizationsPhysiology of Cognitive ProcessesMax Planck Institute forBiological CyberneticsGermanyLaboratory of Neural MicrocircuitryBMISVEPFLFSV/SSVstudent work::master thesis