@ARTICLE\{IMM2005-05210,
    author       = "T. S. Andersen and K. Tiippana and M. Sams",
    title        = "Maximum Likelihood Integration of rapid flashes and beeps",
    year         = "2005",
    month        = "may",
    pages        = "155-60",
    journal      = "Neuroscience Letters",
    volume       = "380",
    editor       = "",
    number       = "1-2",
    publisher    = "",
    url          = "http://www2.compute.dtu.dk/pubdb/pubs/5210-full.html",
    abstract     = "Maximum likelihood models of multisensory integration are theoretically attractive because the goals and assumptions of sensory information processing are explicitly stated in such optimal models. When subjects perceive stimuli categorically, as opposed to on a continuous scale, Maximum Likelihood Integration (MLI) can occur before or after categorization-early or late. We introduce early {MLI} and apply it to the audiovisual perception of rapid beeps and flashes. We compare it to late {MLI} and show that early {MLI} is a better fitting and more parsimonious model. We also show that early {MLI} is better able to account for the effects of information reliability, modality appropriateness and intermodal attention which affect multisensory perception."
}