Multisensory perception and integration

Visual delay affects force scaling and weight perception when lifting objects in virtual reality

The paper investigates how visual delay affects force scaling and weight perception during object lifting in virtual reality, revealing the brain's weighting of haptic and visual signals.

Better ears with eyes open: effects of multisensory stimulation with nonconscious visual stimuli on auditory learning

This study shows that nonconscious visual stimuli enhance auditory pitch learning and alters brain connectivity between visual and auditory cortices.

Auditory-Visual Interactions in the Blind with Artificial Vision: Are Multisensory Perceptions Restored After Decades of Blindness?

This study shows that auditory-visual interactions can be restored in blind individuals with retinal prostheses, even after decades of blindness, and that these interactions are influenced by age and prosthesis use duration.

Acoustic and visual stimulus parameters underlying sound-symbolic crossmodal correspondences

The paper examines how physical stimulus parameters in auditory and visual domains relate to perceptual ratings in sound-symbolic crossmodal correspondences.

Embodied precision: Intranasal oxytocin modulates multisensory integration

This study investigates how intranasal oxytocin affects multisensory integration in bodily illusions, finding it enhances ownership in the rubber hand illusion and alters the size-weight illusion.

Rapid ocular responses are a robust marker for bottom-up driven auditory salience

The paper shows that microsaccade inhibition within 300ms of sound onset is a reliable indicator of auditory salience, validated through crowd-sourced ratings and neural measurements.

Maternal brain gain: enlarged representation of the peripersonal space in pregnancy

The paper investigates changes in peripersonal space (PPS) representation during pregnancy and finds that PPS expands in the third trimester, possibly to protect the abdomen.

Neural Correlates of Optimal Multisensory Decision Making

The paper shows that the brain integrates multisensory inputs optimally using a simple linear combination of neural activity, consistent with an invariant linear probabilistic population code.

How predictive can be predictions in the neurocognitive processing of auditory and audiovisual speech? A deep learning study.

The paper uses deep learning models to predict future audio observations from past auditory and audiovisual speech data, finding that predictions are most accurate within 50 ms and improve slightly with visual input.

Cross-Modal Cue Effects in Motion Transparency Processing

This study examines how feature-based attention affects motion detection across visual and auditory modalities, finding that combined audiovisual cues improve detection accuracy compared to unimodal cues.

Speed tuning in the macaque posterior parietal cortex

The paper investigates whether neurons in the macaque posterior parietal cortex encode self-motion speed and finds that a fraction of neurons do so linearly, supporting path integration.

Unidirectional monosynaptic connections from auditory areas to the primary visual cortex in the marmoset monkey

The paper confirms direct, nonreciprocal auditory projections to V1 in marmoset monkeys, supporting early audiovisual integration in primates.

Perceived timing of active head movement at different speeds

This study investigates how the perceived timing of active head movement relates to its speed, finding that faster movements are perceived as occurring more quickly, though still with a delay.

Early Neural Correlates of an Auditory Pitch - Visual Size Cross-modal Association

This study investigates the neural correlates of an auditory pitch-visual size cross-modal association using EEG and finds early neural representations and congruency effects in sensory processing.

Multisensory perception reflects individual differences in processing temporal correlations

The paper investigates how individual differences in temporal processing affect multisensory perception by measuring the impact of audiovisual correlation strength.

Published estimates of group differences in multisensory integration are inflated

The paper shows that group differences in the McGurk effect are inflated due to high within-group variability and small sample sizes, leading to unreliable conclusions.

What you see depends on what you hear: temporal averaging and crossmodal integration

The paper investigates how irrelevant auditory sequences influence visual temporal processing by modulating perceived motion in Ternus displays, revealing a crossmodal averaging principle based on geometric mean and Bayesian integration.

Hierarchical brain network for face and voice integration of emotion expression

This study identifies the right posterior superior temporal sulcus as a site of multisensory integration for emotional expressions from faces and voices.

The Emotional Glue of the Senses: Affective Certainty and Congruency in the Rubber Hand Illusion

This study investigates how affective congruency between visual and tactile stimuli influences the rubber hand illusion, finding that congruency enhances embodiment compared to uncertainty or incongruency.

A common representation of time across visual and auditory modalities

The paper shows that temporal interval encoding in auditory and visual modalities shares a common neural representation, despite differences in accuracy between modalities.

Hearing through lip-reading: the brain synthesizes features of absent speech

The paper shows that during silent lip-reading of unknown speech, auditory cortices entrain to absent speech at low frequencies, suggesting the brain synthesizes speech features from visual input.

Entrained audiovisual speech integration implemented by two independent computational mechanisms: Redundancy in left posterior superior temporal gyrus and Synergy in left motor cortex

The paper identifies two distinct computational mechanisms in different brain regions that support audiovisual speech comprehension: redundancy in the left posterior superior temporal gyrus and synergy in the left motor cortex.

Bayesian Comparison of Explicit and Implicit Causal Inference Strategies in Multisensory Heading Perception

The paper compares Bayesian and non-Bayesian causal inference strategies in multisensory heading perception using computational modeling and behavioral experiments.

Crossmodal congruency effect scores decrease with repeat test exposure

This paper shows that CCE scores decrease with repeated task exposure and proposes mitigation strategies to reduce learning effects.

Auditory motion does not modulate spiking activity in the middle temporal and medial superior temporal visual areas

This study investigates whether auditory motion modulates spiking activity in visual motion areas of the primate brain and finds no such modulation at the single neuron level.

Emergence of an adaptive command for orienting behavior in premotor brainstem neurons of barn owls

The paper shows how sensory reliability modulates premotor neuron firing rates to adjust sound localization behavior in barn owls.

An assessment of Causal Inference in visual-inertial traveled distance estimation

The paper assesses causal inference in estimating traveled distance using visual and inertial cues, finding model comparisons favor the CI model but individual analysis shows cue capture is preferred.

Audio-tactile and peripersonal space processing around the trunk in human parietal and temporal cortex: an intracranial EEG study

This study uses intracranial EEG to show that peripersonal space processing around the trunk in humans involves multisensory integration and spatial modulation in specific brain regions.

Multisensory stimuli improve relative localisation judgments compared to unisensory auditory or visual stimuli

The paper compares performance in relative localisation tasks using auditory, visual, and auditory-visual stimuli, finding that multisensory stimuli improve performance across all locations.

Modality-independent coding of scene categories in prefrontal cortex

The paper decodes scene categories from brain activity across visual and auditory modalities, showing prefrontal cortex represents these categories in a modality-independent manner.