Multisensory perception and integration

Cross-modal perceptual enhancement of unisensory targets is uni-directional and does not affect temporal expectations

The paper tests if multisensory interactions from flanking stimuli enhance unisensory target perception and temporal expectations, finding uni-directional facilitation for perception but not for expectations.

High-frequency hearing is required for generating a topographic map of auditory space in the mouse superior colliculus

This study shows that C57BL/6 mice lack high-frequency hearing and a topographic map of auditory space due to a genetic mutation, and this can be rescued by introducing wild-type Cdh23.

Visual and auditory brain areas share a representational structure that supports emotion perception

The paper shows that visual and auditory brain areas use shared representational structures for emotion perception, supporting crossmodal comparison of music and movement.

Spatial alignment between faces and voices improves selective attention to audio-visual speech

The paper shows that spatial alignment between faces and voices enhances selective attention to audio-visual speech in noisy environments.

Visual speech differentially modulates beta, theta, and high gamma bands in auditory cortex

The paper investigates how visual speech modulates different frequency bands in auditory cortex, revealing distinct temporal and spatial patterns across theta, beta, and high-gamma bands.

Occlusion of lip movements impairs reconstruction of acoustic speech features and higher-level segmentational features in the presence of a distractor speaker

This study shows that face masks impair neural reconstruction of acoustic speech features and higher-level segmentational features, especially in challenging listening conditions with a distractor speaker.

Towards understanding how we pay attention in naturalistic visual search settings

This study investigates how visual attention is influenced by top-down goals, multisensory stimuli, and contextual factors like semantic relationships and temporal predictability in naturalistic settings.

Uncovering the mechanisms of real-world attentional control over the course of primary education

The paper investigates how attentional control over visual and multisensory objects develops in primary school children using EEG and behavioral tasks, finding stable brain activity patterns from 3rd grade onwards.

Smelling sensations: olfactory crossmodal correspondences

This study investigates crossmodal correspondences between olfactory stimuli and other sensory dimensions using perceptual ratings and statistical analysis, revealing robust associations that are largely independent of explicit odor knowledge.

Neural Basis Of The Sound-Symbolic Crossmodal Correspondence Between Auditory Pseudowords And Visual Shapes

This study investigates the neural basis of sound-symbolic crossmodal correspondence between auditory pseudowords and visual shapes using fMRI, finding incongruency effects in specific brain regions during auditory attention.

Visual modulation of spectrotemporal receptive fields in mouse auditory cortex

The paper examines how visual stimuli modulate auditory cortex neuron activity in mice, finding distinct effects across cortical layers and response types.

Sound improves neuronal encoding of visual stimuli in mouse primary visual cortex

The paper investigates how sound and movement modulate visual responses in the primary visual cortex of awake mice, finding that sound improves neuronal encoding of visual stimuli even when movement is controlled for.

Multisensory integration-attention trade-off in cochlear-implanted deaf individuals

This study investigates how cochlear-implant users balance attention between auditory and visual speech cues, finding they face an integration-attention trade-off in multisensory speech recognition.

Context dependency of time-based event-related expectations for different modalities

The paper investigates cross-modal time-based event-related expectations (TBEEs) by testing visual and auditory stimuli, finding context-dependent performance improvements based on modality and temporal context.

Rhythmic modulation of visual perception by continuous rhythmic auditory stimulation

This study shows that continuous auditory stimulation modulates visual perception and neural activity without rhythmic structure in the visual stimulus or abrupt auditory onsets.

Central tendency biases must be accounted for to consistently capture Bayesian cue combination in continuous response data

The paper introduces a method to accurately estimate sensory precision and cue weightings in perceptual tasks with continuous responses, accounting for central tendency biases.

Short-term audiovisual spatial training enhances electrophysiological correlates of auditory selective spatial attention

This study shows that short-term audiovisual spatial training enhances electrophysiological correlates of auditory selective spatial attention in younger adults but not older adults.

Do congruent lip movements facilitate speech processing in a dynamic audiovisual multi-talker scenario? An ERP study with older and younger adults

This study investigates how congruent lip movements improve speech processing in a multi-talker scenario, showing benefits for both younger and older adults through ERP analysis.

Patterns of multisensory facilitation distinguish peripersonal from reaching space

The paper distinguishes peripersonal space (PPS) from arm-reaching space (ARS) using spatial and temporal performance metrics and multisensory facilitation paradigms across five experiments.

Alpha and beta rhythms differentially support the effect of symbols on visual object recognition

The paper investigates how alpha and beta brain rhythms support language-mediated visual object recognition by analyzing EEG data during a cue-picture matching task.

Multisensory processes can compensate for attention deficits in schizophrenia

This study investigates how multisensory integration compensates for attention deficits in schizophrenia by comparing neural and behavioral responses to unisensory and bisensory stimuli.

Cross-modal orienting of exogenous attention results in visual-cortical facilitation, not suppression

This study investigates whether exogenous attention improves perception through facilitation or suppression, finding that it enhances processing at attended locations without affecting unattended ones.

Minimal interplay between explicit knowledge, dynamics of learning and temporal expectations in different, complex uni- and multisensory contexts

The paper investigates how temporal expectations and learning dynamics affect performance in different sensory contexts, finding that rule learning does not generalize across modalities and explicit knowledge has context-dependent effects.

Sensory feedback-dependent coding of arm position in local field potentials of the posterior parietal cortex

The paper investigates how sensory feedback affects local field potential activity in the posterior parietal cortex during arm position tasks, finding feedback-dependent tuning and suppression of beta band power.

Frontal cortex learns to add evidence across modalities

The paper shows that mouse frontal cortex combines auditory and visual evidence additively during learning, mirroring behavior, and that this combination is impaired by optogenetic inactivation.

Acute stress affects peripersonal space representation

This study examines how acute stress affects peripersonal space representation by measuring visuotactile interactions and cortisol levels in humans.

A brief glimpse at a haptic target is sufficient for multisensory integration in reaching movements

The paper shows that a brief visual glimpse before movement onset is enough to improve endpoint precision through multisensory integration in reaching tasks.

Informational masking vs. crowding - A mid-level trade-off between auditory and visual processing

The paper compares susceptibility to auditory informational masking and visual crowding in the same participants, finding a negative correlation between the two.

Compensating for a shifting world: evolving reference frames of visual and auditory signals across three multimodal brain areas

The paper examines how visual and auditory signals are represented in three brain areas during saccade tasks, finding that both modalities use hybrid reference frames that evolve over time.

Predictive coding over the lifespan: Increased reliance on perceptual priors in older adults -- a magnetoencephalography and dynamic causal modelling study

This study investigates age-related changes in perceptual priors using MEG and dynamic causal modelling, finding older adults show increased reliance on cross-modal predictive templates during multisensory illusions.