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The ability of the brain to processes and adapt multiple sources of information dynamically, underlies its adept capacity for perception, decision making and action. In this talk, I shall present recent findings of multisensory (visual-vestibular) calibration in behaving monkeys and its neural correlate. Two mechanisms of multisensory calibration were found: i) in the absence of external feedback, “unsupervised” calibration reduces cue conflict by shifting the cues towards one another, and ii) “supervised” calibration reduces conflict with external feedback, by shifting the cues together, in the same direction. Strikingly, supervised calibration can cause an initially accurate cue to shift away from feedback, becoming less accurate. A computational model in which supervised and unsupervised calibration work in parallel, where the former only relies on the multisensory percept, but the latter calibrates cues individually, accounts for the observed behavior. Intriguingly, multisensory tuning curves in the ventral intraparietal (VIP) area shift together with behavioral calibration. While unsupervised calibration likely represents an implicit shift in perception, supervised calibration may incorporate higher level, more explicit, control of multisensory processing.