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Multisensory perception and integration

Multisensory perception and integration is a research topic within Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Science Explorer counts 25k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the phenomenon of multisensory integration, focusing on how humans combine and process information from different sensory modalities such as vision, touch, and hearing. It delves into topics such as crossmodal processing, neural correlates of audiovisual interaction, synesthetic experiences, perceptual enhancement, sensory expectations, temporal integration, neuronal oscillations, and cortical connectivity.

  • Multisensory Integration
  • Crossmodal Processing
  • Audiovisual Interaction
  • Neural Correlates
  • Synesthetic Experiences
  • Perceptual Enhancement
  • Sensory Expectations
  • Temporal Integration
  • Neuronal Oscillations
  • Cortical Connectivity
Research works
25k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-2%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
25% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Multisensory perception and integration

Which countries lead Multisensory perception and integration research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (798 and 564 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 798 works
  2. 2 China 564 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 365 works
  4. 4 Japan 346 works
  5. 5 Germany 340 works
  6. 6 France 235 works
  7. 7 Italy 215 works
  8. 8 Canada 169 works
  9. 9 Netherlands 114 works
  10. 10 Australia 105 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 24.5%China: 17.4%United Kingdom: 11.2%Japan: 10.7%6 others listed: 36.2%25%largest
United States798 · 24.5%China564 · 17.4%United Kingdom365 · 11.2%Japan346 · 10.7%6 others listed1,176 · 36.2%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Multisensory perception and integration research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Multisensory perception and integration research, followed by University of Oxford and University College London.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 88 works
  2. 2 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 35 works
  3. 3 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 33 works
  4. 4 Max Planck SocietyGermany 27 works
  5. 5 The University of TokyoJapan 26 works
  6. 6 New York UniversityUnited States 21 works
  7. 7 University of TorontoCanada 21 works
  8. 8 McGill UniversityCanada 20 works
  9. 9 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 19 works
  10. 10 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 18 works

Who are the leading researchers in Multisensory perception and integration?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Multisensory perception and integration include Daniel J. Kahneman, Karl John Friston and Luigi Ferrucci.

  1. 1 Daniel J. Kahneman United States 395k citations
  2. 2 Karl John Friston United Kingdom 310k citations
  3. 3 Luigi Ferrucci United States 281k citations
  4. 4 Li Fei-Fei United States 225k citations
  5. 5 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  6. 6 Marko Sarstedt Germany 221k citations
  7. 7 Bruce Leonard Miller United States 196k citations
  8. 8 Jaakko A. Kaprio Finland 183k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Multisensory perception and integration?

The most cited paper in Multisensory perception and integration is "Hearing lips and seeing voices" (Harry McGurk, John B. Macdonald, 1976), with 6,220 citations. Next come "How do you feel? Interoception: the sense of the physiological condition of the body" (6,100) and "Saliency, switching, attention and control: a network model of insula function" (5,810).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Hearing lips and seeing voices Harry McGurk, John B. Macdonald · Nature Dec 1976 6,220
2 How do you feel? Interoception: the sense of the physiological condition of the body Agnella Craig · Nature reviews. Neuroscience Review Aug 2002 6,100
3 Saliency, switching, attention and control: a network model of insula function Vinod Menon, Lucina Q. Uddin · Brain Structure and Function Open access 28 May 2010 5,810
4 Humans integrate visual and haptic information in a statistically optimal fashion Marc O. Ernst, Martin S. Banks · Nature 2002 5,051
5 Perception and Communication Shelley D. Lane Book chapterOpen access 23 Jun 2016 4,732
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Multisensory perception and integration research done?

The largest centres of Multisensory perception and integration research in 2022-now are Tokyo (Japan), Beijing (China), Paris (France) and London (United Kingdom). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Nijmegen.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 TokyoJapan 128 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 121 works
  3. 3 ParisFrance 96 works
  4. 4 LondonUnited Kingdom 89 works
  5. 5 ShanghaiChina 53 works
  6. 6 New YorkUnited States 45 works
  7. 7 SeoulSouth Korea 44 works
  8. 8 MontrealCanada 42 works
  9. 9 TorontoCanada 37 works
  10. 10 OxfordUnited Kingdom 37 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. NijmegenNL · 22.2 works7.9×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Multisensory perception and integration than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Multisensory perception and integration?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Oxford, University College London and Johns Hopkins University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%mean 17.78%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of OxfordUniversity College L…Johns Hopkins Univer…McGill University
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 83.819.5%6.5×35 -39.5%
2University College LondonUnited Kingdom 78.218.6%5.4×33 -18.9%
3Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 71.618.3%3.1×18 +43.2%
4McGill UniversityCanada 67.014.4%5.4×20 +5.6%
5University of PaduaItaly 59.119.2%4.9×15 +36.4%
6New York UniversityUnited States 56.513.3%4.8×21 -24.2%
7University of SussexUnited Kingdom 55.623.6%11.2×11 -46.0%
8University of TübingenGermany 54.717.7%9.3×15 -12.2%
9Trinity College DublinIreland 53.812.3%7.5×12 +46.0%
10University of CopenhagenDenmark 53.520.9%2.3×8 +21.6%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Multisensory perception and integration, country by country

Is Multisensory perception and integration research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 2% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Multisensory perception and integration as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.016% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Multisensory perception and integration0.018% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Multisensory perception and integration over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Multisensory perception and integration9.8% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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