Crossmodality (i.e., the integration of stimulations coming from different sensory modalities) is a crucial ability in everyday life and has been extensively explored in healthy adults. Still, it has not yet received much attention in psychiatry, and particularly in alcohol-dependence. The present study investigates the cerebral correlates of crossmodal integration deficits in alcohol-dependence to assess whether these deficits are due to the mere accumulation of unimodal impairments or rather to specific alterations in crossmodal areas.
Maurage, P., Joassin, F., Pesenti, M., Grandin, C., Heeren, A., Philippot, P., & de Timary, P. (2013). The neural network sustaining crossmodal integration is impaired in alcohol-dependence : an fMRI study. Cortex, 49(6), 1610-1626. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2012.04.012 (Original work published 2013)