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Source: Multisensory research - June 26, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research
Auditory and Visual Crossmodal Correspondences With Haptically Perceived Liquid Viscosity
Source: Page Count 21Past research on crossmodal correspondences as they relate to tactile perception has largely been restricted to solid substances. We investigated the role of haptically explored liquid viscosity in crossmodal correspondences with visually presented luminance, saturation, roundedness, size, number and visual elevation, as well as pure-tone pitch and kiki–bouba-type letter strings. In Experiment 1, we presented two tactile and two visual or auditory stimuli simultaneously, and found significant inter-participant agreement ( n = 32 ) when...
Source: Multisensory research - June 15, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Jennah Asad, Mary Jane Spiller and Clare Jonas Source Type: research
Depth: the Forgotten Dimension in Multisensory Research
< div > < strong > Source: < /strong > Volume 29, Issue 6-7, pp 493 - 524 < /div > < div > The last quarter of a century has seen a dramatic rise of interest in the spatial constraints on multisensory integration. However, until recently, the majority of this research has investigated integration in the space directly in front of the observer. The space around us, however, extends in three spatial dimensions in the front and to the rear beyond such a limited area. The question to be addressed in this review concerns whether multisensory integration operates according to the same rules throughout the whole of three-dimensi...
Source: Multisensory research - June 7, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Authors: N. van der Stoep, A. Serino, A. Farn è, M. Di Luca and C. Spence Source Type: research
Above the Mean: Examining Variability in Behavioral and Neural Responses to Multisensory Stimuli
Source: Volume 29, Issue 6-7, pp 663 - 678Even when experimental conditions are kept constant, a robust and consistent finding in both behavioral and neural experiments designed to examine multisensory processing is striking variability. Although this variability has often been considered uninteresting noise (a term that is laden with strong connotations), emerging work suggests that differences in variability may be an important aspect in describing differences in performance between individuals and groups. In the current review, derived from a symposium at the 2015 International Multisensory Research Forum in Pisa, Ital...
Source: Multisensory research - June 7, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Sarah H. Baum, Hans Colonius, Antonia Thelen, Cristiano Micheli and Mark T. Wallace Source Type: research
The Curious Incident of Attention in Multisensory Integration: Bottom-up Top-down
Source: Volume 29, Issue 6-7, pp 557 - 583The role attention plays in our experience of a coherent, multisensory world is still controversial. On the one hand, a subset of inputs may be selected for detailed processing and multisensory integration in a top-down manner, i.e., guidance of multisensory integration by attention. On the other hand, stimuli may be integrated in a bottom-up fashion according to low-level properties such as spatial coincidence, thereby capturing attention. Moreover, attention itself is multifaceted and can be described via both top-down and bottom-up mechanisms. Thus, the interaction between atten...
Source: Multisensory research - June 7, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Emiliano Macaluso, Uta Noppeney, Durk Talsma, Tiziana Vercillo, Jess Hartcher-O’Brien and Ruth Adam Source Type: research
Multisensory Integration in Self Motion Perception
This article reviews the findings from single unit electrophysiology, functional and structural magnetic resonance imaging and psychophysics to present an update on how the human and non-human primate brain integrates multisensory information to estimate one’s position and motion in space. The results indicate that there is a network of regions in the non-human primate and human brain that processes self motion cues from the different sense modalities. (Source: Multisensory research)
Source: Multisensory research - June 7, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Mark W. Greenlee, Sebastian M. Frank, Mariia Kaliuzhna, Olaf Blanke, Frank Bremmer, Jan Churan, Luigi F. Cuturi, Paul R. MacNeilage and Andrew T. Smith Source Type: research
Depth: the Forgotten Dimension in Multisensory Research
Source: Volume 29, Issue 6-7, pp 493 - 524The last quarter of a century has seen a dramatic rise of interest in the spatial constraints on multisensory integration. However, until recently, the majority of this research has investigated integration in the space directly in front of the observer. The space around us, however, extends in three spatial dimensions in the front and to the rear beyond such a limited area. The question to be addressed in this review concerns whether multisensory integration operates according to the same rules throughout the whole of three-dimensional space. The results reviewed here not only sho...
Source: Multisensory research - June 7, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Authors: N. van der Stoep, A. Serino, A. Farnè, M. Di Luca and C. Spence Source Type: research
Domestic Dogs and Human Infants Look More at Happy and Angry Faces Than Sad Faces (Advance Article)
We presented 52 domestic dogs and 24 seven-month-old human infants with two different human emotional facial expressions of the same gender simultaneously, while listening to a human voice expressing an emotion that matched one of them. Consistent with most matching studies, neither dogs nor infants looked longer at the matching emotional stimuli, yet dogs and humans demonstrated an identical pattern of looking less at sad faces when paired with happy or angry faces (irrespective of the vocal stimulus), with no preference for happy versus angry faces. Discussion focuses on why dogs and infants might have an aversion to sad...
Source: Multisensory research - June 6, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Min Hooi Yong and Ted Ruffman Source Type: research
The Kappa Effect With Only Two Visual Markers
Source: Page Count 23The kappa effect is a spatiotemporal illusion where duration is overestimated with the increase of space. This effect is typically demonstrated with three successive stimuli marking two neighboring empty time intervals, and the classical imputed velocity model, in principle, does not help to predict any spatial effects when only two stimuli, marking single intervals, are presented on each trial. We thus conducted three experiments, examining requirements for the occurrence of the kappa effect with only two visual stimuli. An interstimulus interval between the two stimuli was 217 (short) or 283 ms (lon...
Source: Multisensory research - April 28, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Tsuyoshi Kuroda, Simon Grondin, Makoto Miyazaki, Katsuya Ogata and Shozo Tobimatsu Source Type: research
Multimodal Contributions to Body Representation
Source: Page Count 27Our body is a unique entity by which we interact with the external world. Consequently, the way we represent our body has profound implications in the way we process and locate sensations and in turn perform appropriate actions. The body can be the subject, but also the object of our experience, providing information from sensations on the body surface and viscera, but also knowledge of the body as a physical object. However, the extent to which different senses contribute to constructing the rich and unified body representations we all experience remains unclear. In this review, we aim to bring togeth...
Source: Multisensory research - April 20, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Elena Azañón, Luigi Tamè, Angelo Maravita, Sally A. Linkenauger, Elisa R. Ferrè, Ana Tajadura-Jiménez and Matthew R. Longo Source Type: research
On the Temporal Precision of Thought: Individual Differences in the Multisensory Temporal Binding Window Predict Performance on Verbal and Nonverbal Problem Solving Tasks (Advance Article)
Source: Page Count 23Although psychology is greatly preoccupied by the tight link between the way that individuals perceive the world and their intelligent, creative behavior, there is little experimental work on the relationship between individual differences in perception and cognitive ability in healthy populations. Here, individual differences in problem solving ability were examined in relation to multisensory perception as measured by tolerance for temporal asynchrony between auditory and visual inputs, i.e., the multisensory temporal binding window. The results demonstrated that enhanced performance in both verbal a...
Source: Multisensory research - April 12, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Leor Zmigrod and Sharon Zmigrod Source Type: research
The Curious Incident of Attention in Multisensory Integration: Bottom-up Top-down (Advance Article)
Source: Page Count 27The role attention plays in our experience of a coherent, multisensory world is still controversial. On the one hand, a subset of inputs may be selected for detailed processing and multisensory integration in a top-down manner, i.e., guidance of multisensory integration by attention. On the other hand, stimuli may be integrated in a bottom-up fashion according to low-level properties such as spatial coincidence, thereby capturing attention. Moreover, attention itself is multifaceted and can be described via both top-down and bottom-up mechanisms. Thus, the interaction between attention and multisensory...
Source: Multisensory research - March 10, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Emiliano Macaluso, Uta Noppeney, Durk Talsma, Tiziana Vercillo, Jess Hartcher-O’Brien and Ruth Adam Source Type: research
Insights and Perspectives on Sensory-Motor Integration and Rehabilitation
We describe the structure–function relations of this loop, how these relations can be modeled and aspects of somatosensory-motor rehabilitation. The work reviewed here shows that it is imperative to understand the fundamental mechanisms of the somatosensory-motor system to restore accurate motor abilities and appropriate somatosensory feedback. Knowledge of the salient neural mechanisms of sensory-motor integration has begun to generate innovative approaches to improve rehabilitation training following neurological impairments such as stroke. The present work supports the integration of basic science principles of sensor...
Source: Multisensory research - March 9, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Rochelle Ackerley, Michael Borich, Calogero Maria Oddo and Silvio Ionta Source Type: research
The Complex Interplay Between Multisensory Integration and Perceptual Awareness
Source: Page Count 22The integration of information has been considered a hallmark of human consciousness, as it requires information being globally available via widespread neural interactions. Yet the complex interdependencies between multisensory integration and perceptual awareness, or consciousness, remain to be defined. While perceptual awareness has traditionally been studied in a single sense, in recent years we have witnessed a surge of interest in the role of multisensory integration in perceptual awareness. Based on a recent IMRF symposium on multisensory awareness, this review discusses three key questions from...
Source: Multisensory research - March 8, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Authors: O. Deroy, N. Faivre, C. Lunghi, C. Spence, M. Aller and U. Noppeney Source Type: research
Multisensory Integration in Self Motion Perception (Advance Article)
This article reviews the findings from single unit electrophysiology, functional and structural magnetic resonance imaging and psychophysics to present an update on how the human and non-human primate brain integrates multisensory information to estimate one’s position and motion in space. The results indicate that there is a network of regions in the non-human primate and human brain that processes self motion cues from the different sense modalities. (Source: Multisensory research)
Source: Multisensory research - March 7, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Mark W. Greenlee, Sebastian M. Frank, Mariia Kaliuzhna, Olaf Blanke, Frank Bremmer, Jan Churan, Luigi F. Cuturi, Paul R. MacNeilage and Andrew T. Smith Source Type: research
