UNIVERSITÄT HAMBURG

The term crossmodal learning refers to the adaptive, synergistic synthesis of complex perceptions from multiple sensory modalities, such that the learning that occurs within any individual sensory modality can be enhanced with information from one or more other modalities. Crossmodal learning is crucial for human understanding of the world, and examples are ubiquitous, such as: learning to grasp, and manipulate objects; learning to walk; learning to read and write; learning to understand language and its referents; etc. In all these examples, visual, auditory, somatosensory or other modalities have to be integrated, and learning must, therefore, be crossmodal. In fact, a broad range of acquired human skills are crossmodal, and many of the most advanced human capabilities, such as those involved in social cognition, require learning from the richest combinations of crossmodal information... The human brain is an extraordinarily dynamic and system that robustly integrates vast amounts..

Also known as: crossmodal learning

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