Cross-Modal Cue Effects in Motion Processing
Source:Page Count 21The everyday environment brings to our sensory systems competing inputs from different modalities. The ability to filter these multisensory inputs in order to identify and efficiently utilize useful spatial cues is necessary to detect and process the relevant information. In the present study, we investigate how feature-based attention affects the detection of motion across sensory modalities. We were interested to determine how subjects use intramodal, cross-modal auditory, and combined audiovisual motion cues to attend to specific visual motion signals. The results showed that in most cases, both the ...
Source: Multisensory research - October 24, 2018 Category: Neuroscience Authors: G. M. Hanada, J. Ahveninen, F. J. Calabro, A. Yengo-Kahn and L. M. Vaina Source Type: research
Temporal Cognition Can Affect Spatial Cognition More Than : The Effect of Task-Related Stimulus Saliency
Source:Page Count 20Cognition of space and time affect each other; a line with longer length appears to be longer in exposure duration (space on time), and a line with longer exposure duration appears to be longer in length (time on space). This cognitive interaction is known to be asymmetric; the effect of space on time is larger than that of time on space. We conjectured that this asymmetry is not intrinsic but may depend on the saliency of relevant signals. Participants were asked to judge the visual exposure duration of lines that varied in length or the lengths of the lines with different exposure times. The ranges of...
Source: Multisensory research - October 12, 2018 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Chizuru T. Homma and Hiroshi Ashida Source Type: research
Having a Drink with Tchaikovsky: The Crossmodal Influence of Background Music on the Taste of Beverages
Source:Page Count 24Previous research has shown that auditory cues can influence the flavor of food and drink. For instance, wine tastes better when preferred music is played. We have investigated whether a music background can modify judgments of the specific flavor pattern of a beverage, as opposed to mere preference. This was indeed the case. We explored the nature of this crosstalk between auditory and gustatory perception, and hypothesized that the ‘flavor’ of the background music carries over to the perceived flavor (i.e., descriptive and evaluative aspects) of beverages. First, we collected ratings of the subjec...
Source: Multisensory research - July 26, 2018 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Pia Hauck and Heiko Hecht Source Type: research
Author Index to Volume 31
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Source: Multisensory research - June 26, 2018 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research
Subject Index to Volume 31
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Source: Multisensory research - June 26, 2018 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research
Contents Index to Volume 31
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Source: Multisensory research - June 26, 2018 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research
An Illusory Contour Can Facilitate Visually Induced Self-Motion Perception
Source:Volume 31, Issue 8, pp 715 - 727Uniform motion of a visual stimulus induces an illusory perception of the observer ’s self-body moving in the opposite direction (vection). The present study investigated whether vertical illusory contours can affect horizontal translational vection using abutting-line stimulus. The stimulus consisted of a number of horizontal line segments that moved horizontally at a constant speed. A group of vertically aligned segments created a ‘striped column’, while line segments in adjoining columns were shifted vertically to make a slight gap between them. In the illusory contour condit...
Source: Multisensory research - June 26, 2018 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Shinji Nakamura and Shin ’ya Takahashi Source Type: research
An Illusory Contour Can Facilitate Visually Induced Self-Motion Perception (Advance Article)
Source:Page Count 13Uniform motion of a visual stimulus induces an illusory perception of the observer ’s self-body moving in the opposite direction (vection). The present study investigated whether vertical illusory contours can affect horizontal translational vection using abutting-line stimulus. The stimulus consisted of a number of horizontal line segments that moved horizontally at a constant speed. A group of vertically aligned segments created a ‘striped column’, while line segments in adjoining columns were shifted vertically to make a slight gap between them. In the illusory contour condition, the end points...
Source: Multisensory research - June 12, 2018 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Shinji Nakamura and Shin ’ya Takahashi Source Type: research
An Investigation of the Relationships Between Autistic Traits and Crossmodal Correspondences in Typically Developing Adults (Advance Article)
Source:Page Count 23Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) includes characteristics such as social and behavioral deficits that are considered common across the general population rather than unique to people with the diagnosis. People with ASD are reported to have sensory irregularities, including crossmodal perception. Crossmodal correspondences are phenomena in which arbitrary crossmodal inputs affect behavioral performance. Crossmodal correspondences are considered to be established through associative learning, but the learning cues are considered to differ across the types of correspondences. In order to investigate whether ...
Source: Multisensory research - May 23, 2018 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Souta Hidaka and Ayako Yaguchi Source Type: research
Investigating Head Movements Induced by ‘Riloid’ Patterns in Migraine and Control Groups Using a Virtual Reality Display (Advance Article)
Source:Page Count 25Certain striped patterns can induce illusory motion, such as those used in op-art. The visual system and the vestibular system work together closely, and so it is possible that illusory motion from a visual stimulus can result in uncertainty in the vestibular system. This increased uncertainty may be measureable in terms of the magnitude of head movements. Head movements were measured using a head-mounted visual display. Results showed that stimuli associated with illusory motion also seem to induce greater head movements when compared to similar stimuli. Individuals with migraine are more susceptible t...
Source: Multisensory research - May 21, 2018 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Louise O ’Hare, Alex Sharp, Patrick Dickinson, Graham Richardson and John Shearer Source Type: research
Implicit Association Effects Between Sound and Food Images
Source:Page Count 13A growing body of empirical research documents the existence of several interesting crossmodal correspondences between auditory and gustatory/flavor stimuli, demonstrating that people can match specific acoustic and musical parameters with different tastes and flavors. In this context, a number of researchers and musicians arranged their own soundtracks so as to match specific tastes and used them for research purposes, revealing explicit crossmodal effects on judgments of taste comparative intensity or of taste/sound accordance. However, only few studies have examined implicit associations related to t...
Source: Multisensory research - May 16, 2018 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Caterina Padulo, Luca Tommasi and Alfredo Brancucci Source Type: research
Audiovisual Integration Varies With Target and Environment Richness in Immersive Virtual Reality
Source:Volume 31, Issue 7, pp 689 - 713We are continually bombarded by information arriving to each of our senses; however, the brain seems to effortlessly integrate this separate information into a unified percept. Although multisensory integration has been researched extensively using simple computer tasks and stimuli, much less is known about how multisensory integration functions in real-world contexts. Additionally, several recent studies have demonstrated that multisensory integration varies tremendously across naturalistic stimuli. Virtual reality can be used to study multisensory integration in realistic settings b...
Source: Multisensory research - May 9, 2018 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Hudson Diggs Bailey, Aidan B. Mullaney, Kyla D. Gibney and Leslie Dowell Kwakye Source Type: research
Intact Dynamic Visual Capture in People With One Eye
Source:Volume 31, Issue 7, pp 675 - 688Observing motion in one modality can influence the perceived direction of motion in a second modality (dynamic capture). For example observing a square moving in depth can influence the perception of a sound to increase in loudness. The current study investigates whether people who have lost one eye are susceptible to audiovisual dynamic capture in the depth plane similar to binocular and eye-patched viewing control participants. Partial deprivation of the visual system from the loss of one eye early in life results in changes in the remaining intact senses such as hearing. Linearly e...
Source: Multisensory research - May 9, 2018 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Stefania S. Moro and Jennifer K. E. Steeves Source Type: research
Effects of Auditory Patterns on Judged Displacements of an Occluded Moving Object
Source:Volume 31, Issue 7, pp 623 - 643Using displays in which a moving disk disappeared behind an occluder, we examined whether an accompanying auditory rhythm influenced the perceived displacement of the disk during occlusion. We manipulated a baseline rhythm, comprising a relatively fast alternation of equal sound and pause durations. We had two different manipulations to create auditory sequences with a slower rhythm: either the pause durations or the sound durations were increased. In the trial, a disk moved at a constant speed, and at a certain point moved behind an occluder during which an auditory rhythm was played...
Source: Multisensory research - May 9, 2018 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Chayada Chotsrisuparat, Arno Koning, Richard Jacobs and Rob van Lier Source Type: research
Still no Evidence for Sustained Effects of Multisensory Integration of Duration
Source:Volume 31, Issue 7, pp 601 - 622In studies on temporal order perception, immediate as well as sustained effects of multisensory integration have been demonstrated repeatedly. Regarding duration perception, the corresponding literature reports clear immediate effects of multisensory integration, but evidence on sustained effects of multisensory duration integration is scarce. In fact, a single study [Heron, J.et al. (2013). A neural hierarchy for illusions of time: Duration adaptation precedes multisensory integration,J. Vis.13, 1 –12.] investigated adaptation to multisensory conflicting intervals, and found no...
Source: Multisensory research - May 9, 2018 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Maria D. de la Rosa and Karin M. Bausenhart Source Type: research
