Figure 5.

Sensory training develops normal multisensory integration capabilities in the naïve animal. A, After naïve animals experience the sensory training procedure, the mean level of unisensory imbalance in their multisensory responses decreased below that of even the normal animal. B, An inverse relationship between ME and UI identified in the normal and naïve cohorts was also identified in the trained cohort. The slopes (C) and the intercepts (D) of the regression lines fitting the relationship between ME and UI was quantitatively similar in the trained and normal conditions, but were significantly different from the line fit for the naïve condition. Nevertheless, some negative ME scores like those in the naïve condition remained in the trained animals. Plotted are the means and 95% confidence intervals for the slope and intercept parameters for the three groups. *p < 0.05.