Multisensory perception and integration

Vision rivals audition in alerting humans for fast action

This study shows that visual and auditory alerting cues equally speed up responses in a speeded choice task, challenging the assumption that audition is more effective for prompt action.

Multi-modal representation of the size of space in the human brain

This study investigates how the brain represents spatial size using visual and auditory cues, finding both modality-specific and integrated representations in specific brain regions.

Different time scales of common-cause evidence shape multisensory integration, recalibration and motor adaptation

The paper investigates how different time scales of common-cause evidence influence multisensory integration, recalibration, and motor adaptation in a visuo-motor task.

Differential effects of intra-modal and cross-modal reward value on visual perception: ERP evidence

The paper investigates how reward value from visual and auditory cues affects visual perception, finding distinct effects for intra-modal and cross-modal cues.

Prestimulus neural variability affects behavioral performances mediated by poststimulus-evoked responses at the intraindividual and interindividual levels

The paper investigates how prestimulus neural variability predicts behavioral variability in audiovisual temporal perception and explores its influence through poststimulus-evoked responses.

Not alpha power: prestimulus beta power predicts the magnitude of individual temporal order bias for audiovisual stimuli

The paper investigates how prestimulus beta power in auditory and visual cortices predicts individual temporal order bias in audiovisual perception tasks.

Neuronal modeling of magnetoencephalography responses in auditory cortex to auditory and visual stimuli

The paper uses MEG and computational modeling to show that cross-sensory visual input to human auditory cortex is feedback-type, consistent with findings in non-human primates.

Distinct Neural Signatures of Multimodal Resizing Illusions: Implications for Chronic Pain Treatment

This study compares neural responses to multisensory and unimodal visual resizing illusions, finding increased parietal gamma in multisensory conditions and suggesting visual-only illusions may affect cortical body representations.

Involuntary shifts of spatial attention contribute to distraction - Evidence from oscillatory alpha power and reaction time data

The paper investigates how involuntary spatial attention shifts caused by unexpected sounds affect reaction times and alpha power, showing distraction is influenced by the spatial relationship between sounds and targets.

Early retinal deprivation crossmodally alters nascent subplate circuits and activity in the auditory cortex during the precritical period

Dissociable neural correlates of multisensory coherence and selective attention

The paper investigates how audiovisual coherence and auditory selective attention interact neurophysiologically, finding dissociable effects on ERP amplitude.

Monosynaptic trans-collicular pathways link mouse whisker circuits to integrate somatosensory and motor cortical signals

This study maps trans-collicular pathways in mice, revealing how somatosensory and motor cortical signals integrate in the superior colliculus through excitatory and inhibitory pathways.

Lip movements and lexical features improve speech tracking differently for clear and multi-speaker speech

This study shows face masks impair audiovisual speech tracking but not audio-only speech, highlighting the role of visual speech in speech processing.

TMS reveals a two-stage priming circuit of gesture-speech integration

The paper uses TMS to investigate the time course of gesture-speech integration, finding that speech is primed before gestures are unified with speech to form meaning.

Multisensory perceptual learning in virtual reality may facilitate transfer to untrained locations but is impacted by training procedures.

The paper investigates whether multisensory integration enhances perceptual learning transfer in virtual reality, finding that it improves figure-ground segregation learning but not motion direction discrimination.

Crossmodal metaperception: Visual and tactile confidence share a common scale

The paper investigates whether visual and tactile confidence judgments share a common scale, finding they do with similar precision across modalities.

Impulse perturbation reveals cross-modal access to sensory working memory through learned associations

The paper shows that learned associations enable cross-modal access to working memory, as auditory impulses can decode visual working memory through learned links.

The integration of continuous audio and visual speech in a cocktail-party environment depends on attention

The paper investigates how attention affects multisensory integration of audio and visual speech in a cocktail-party environment using EEG data from natural speech tasks.

Effects of continuous tactile stimulation on auditory-evoked cortical responses depend on the audio-tactile phase

This study investigates how continuous tactile stimulation affects auditory-evoked cortical responses based on audio-tactile phase alignment, finding enhanced cortical processing with in-phase stimulation and suppressed responses with anti-phase stimulation, without corresponding behavioral benefits.

EEG mismatch responses in a multi-modal roving stimulus paradigm provide evidence for probabilistic inference across audition, somatosensation and vision.

This study investigates probabilistic inference across multiple sensory modalities using EEG mismatch responses in a tri-modal paradigm, finding comparable signatures and cross-modal predictive sensitivity.

Retention of visuo-proprioceptive recalibration in estimating hand position

This study investigates how well visuo-proprioceptive recalibration is retained after a spatial mismatch, finding robust short-term retention but variable long-term effects.

Steady state visual evoked potentials reveal a signature of the pitch-size crossmodal association in visual cortex

The paper uses SSVEP to investigate pitch-size crossmodal associations, finding sensitivity in occipital regions and suggesting low-level visual cortex involvement.

Coherent mapping of position and head direction across auditory and visual cortex

The paper shows that spiking activity in auditory and visual cortex of rats coherently represents spatial position and head direction during a sensory detection task.

Cross-modal interactions at the audiovisual cocktail-party revealed by behavior, ERPs, and neural oscillations

This study investigates how selective attention operates in multisensory environments by analyzing behavior, ERPs, and neural oscillations during an audiovisual cocktail-party task.

Off-Vertical Body Orientation Delays the Perceived Onset of Visual Motion

This study shows that off-vertical body orientations delay the perceived onset of visual motion due to vestibular signal conflicts.

Contrary neuronal recalibration in different multisensory cortical areas

The paper investigates neuronal recalibration in multisensory cortical areas during visual-vestibular conflict, finding differential recalibration patterns across MSTd, PIVC, and VIP.

Specific guidelines for time and space of multisensory plasticity in the superior colliculus.

The paper shows that adult superior colliculus neurons exhibit short-term plasticity adapting multisensory integration to environmental changes, but not spatial configurations.

Spectral signatures of cross-modal attentional control in the adolescent brain and their link with physical activity and aerobic fitness levels

This study examines cross-modal attentional control in adolescents using MEG, finding differences in visual and auditory cortex engagement linked to physical activity levels.

Modulation of perception by visual, auditory, and audiovisual reward predicting cues

This study investigates how reward cues affect multisensory integration and perception, finding that reward does not enhance the supra-additive principle of multisensory integration.

The Timing of Cortical Activation in Associator Grapheme-Colour Synaesthetes using MEG

This study uses MEG to examine the timing and neural correlates of associator grapheme-colour synaesthesia, finding evoked activity at ~190 ms localized to occipito-parietal regions, supporting the Disinhibited Feedback model.