Uta Noppeney

Learned Visual Relevance Shapes Perceptual Inference: Evidence from Eyes to Hands

This study shows that learned visual priorities from instrumental learning influence perceptual inference in an unrelated audiovisual task, shifting sound perception toward previously relevant visual targets.

Watching Yourself Talk: Motor Experience Sharpens Sensitivity to Gesture-Speech Asynchrony

The paper shows that producing speech and gestures enhances sensitivity to audiovisual asynchrony, suggesting predictive motor mechanisms improve multisensory integration.

Invisible flashes bias spatial coding in the auditory system

This study shows that invisible flashes influence spatial perception of sounds by biasing neural encoding even when the flashes are not consciously perceived.

Feeling the music: Audiotactile encoding of temporal structure in the human brain

This study investigates how vibrotactile signals influence music processing and auditory scene analysis by combining fMRI, EEG, and psychophysics in human participants.

Perceptual uncertainty explains activation differences between audiovisual congruent speech and McGurk stimuli

This study shows that perceptual uncertainty explains neural activation differences between McGurk and congruent audiovisual speech stimuli, supporting the McGurk illusion as a valid measure of natural speech perception.

Audiovisual integration is preserved in older adults across the cortical hierarchy

This study investigates age differences in audiovisual integration using fMRI, finding older adults maintain localization accuracy but show increased response times and distinct neural activation patterns.

rTMS to right parietal cortex decreases the precision of spatial priors in perceptual decision making

This study shows that rTMS to the right parietal cortex reduces the precision of spatial priors in perceptual decisions without affecting causal priors or sensory uncertainties.

Metacognition in the audiovisual McGurk illusion: perceptual and causal confidence

This study investigates how observers form perceptual and causal confidence judgments in multisensory integration tasks under causal uncertainty using the audiovisual McGurk illusion.

Computations and neural dynamics of audiovisual causal and perceptual inference in schizophrenia

This study investigates perceptual and causal inference in schizophrenia using psychophysics, Bayesian modeling, and EEG, finding intact computational mechanisms in medicated patients.

Audiovisual adaptation is expressed in spatial and decisional codes

This study shows how the brain adapts to misaligned audiovisual signals by using distinct spatial and decisional codes across the auditory processing hierarchy.

Using the past to estimate sensory uncertainty

This study shows that humans integrate past and current sensory signals to estimate uncertainty, challenging models that assume uncertainty is based only on current stimuli.

Modality-specific and multisensory mechanisms of spatial attention and expectation

This study investigates how spatial attention and expectation influence perception across sensory modalities, finding modality-specific and multisensory mechanisms.

The influence of auditory attention on rhythmic speech entrainment

This study investigates how auditory attention affects rhythmic speech entrainment at word and sentence levels using EEG data from 72 participants.

Resolving multisensory and attentional influences across cortical depth in sensory cortices

The paper investigates how multisensory and attentional influences vary across cortical depth in sensory cortices using fMRI, finding distinct depth-dependent patterns in auditory and visual cortices.

Older adults sacrifice response speed to preserve multisensory integration performance

This study shows older adults maintain multisensory integration performance by slowing their responses despite noisier sensory processing.

Distinct neural mechanisms and temporal constraints govern a cascade of audiotactile interactions

The paper investigates how the brain integrates audiotactile signals based on asynchrony, finding distinct neural mechanisms and temporal constraints across different time windows.

The neural dynamics of hierarchical Bayesian inference in multisensory perception

This study investigates how the brain performs hierarchical Bayesian inference in multisensory perception using EEG and Bayesian modeling, showing model averaging and prior belief influence.

To integrate or not to integrate: Temporal dynamics of hierarchical Bayesian Causal Inference

The paper shows the brain uses Bayesian Causal Inference to dynamically integrate or segregate audiovisual signals based on sensory reliability and task relevance.

Additive and interactive effects of spatial attention and expectation on perceptual decisions

The paper investigates how spatial attention and expectation affect perceptual decisions, finding additive or interactive effects depending on experimental conditions.