He was a post-doctoral research fellow at the Department of Anatomy and the Brain Research Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine. He then joined the faculty of the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at the Medical College of Virginia, where he achieved the rank of full professor and also served as interim chairman. Stein BE, Magalhaes-Castro B, and Kruger L Superior colliculus: visuotopic-somatotopic overlap. Science 189:224-226, 1975. Gaither NS and Stein BE Reptiles and mammals use similar sensory organizations in the midbrain. Science 205:595-598, 1979  Stein BE, Clamann HP, and Goldberg SJ Superior colliculus: control of eye movements in neonatal kittens. Science 210:78-80, 1980. Meredith MA and Stein BE Interactions among converging sensory inputs in the superior colliculus. Science 221:389-391, 1983. Meredith MA and Stein BE Descending efferents from the superior colliculus relay integrated multisensory information. Science 227:657-659, 1985. Jiang H, Stein BE, and McHaffie JG Opposing basal ganglia processes shape midbrain visuomotor activity bilaterally. Nature 423:982-986, 2003. Wallace MT, Ramachandran R, and Stein BE A new view of sensory cortical parcellation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 101:2167-2172, 2004. Alvarado JC, Stanford TR, Vaughan JW, and Stein BE Cortex mediates multisensory but not unisensory integration in superior colliculus. Journal of Neuroscience 27:12775-12786, 2007. Stein BE and Stanford TR Multisensory integration: current issues from the perspective of the single neuron. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 9:255-266, 2008. Alvarado JC, Stanford TR, Rowland BA, Vaughan JW, and Stein BE Multisensory integration in the superior colliculus requires synergy among corticocollicular inputs. Journal of Neuroscience 29:6580-6592, 2009. Yu L, Stein BE, and Rowland BA Adult plasticity in multisensory neurons: Short-term experience-dependent changes in the superior colliculus. Journal of Neuroscience 29:15910-15922, 2009. Yu L, Rowland BA, and Stein BE Initiating the development of multisensory integration by manipulating sensory experience.