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Ten Years at the Multisensory Forum: Musings on the Evolution of a Field

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On behalf of the IMRF community, we’d like to extend our collective thanks to the members of the local organizing committee at City College who worked so hard to ensure the success of the conference here in New York (Dr. Hans-Peter Frey, Dr. Natalie Russo, Dr. Gabriella Mussachio, Dr. John Bulter, Dr. Arnaud Falchier, Mr. Josh Lucan, Mr. Ian Fiebelkorn and Ms. Edel Flynn). Essential sponsorship of the conference was generously provided by the Provost and President of The City College of New York (CCNY), and by donations from the Unilever Corporation and the euCognition Program (http://www.eucognition.org/). The accompanying illustration (The Immersion of the Senses) was executed in oil paint on gessoboard by Bonnie Gloris, an illustrator who lives and works in Jersey City, New Jersey. The multisensory work of Drs. Foxe and Molholm is supported by grants from the US National Institute of Mental Health (MH65350 & MH85322).

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Foxe, J.J., Molholm, S. Ten Years at the Multisensory Forum: Musings on the Evolution of a Field. Brain Topogr 21, 149–154 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10548-009-0102-9

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