Multisensory perception and integration

Converging Evidence from Electrocorticography and BOLD fMRI for a Sharp Functional Boundary in Superior Temporal Gyrus Related to Multisensory Speech Processing

The paper identifies a sharp functional boundary in the superior temporal gyrus using ECOG and fMRI, showing distinct roles for anterior and posterior regions in unisensory and multisensory speech processing.

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.

Visual cortical entrainment to unheard acoustic speech reflects intelligibility of lip movements and is mediated by dorsal stream regions

The paper shows that visual cortex entrains more to forward than backward unheard acoustic speech envelopes during silent lip movements, indicating visuo-phonological mapping and top-down modulation.

Magnetic resonance imaging does not reveal structural alterations in the brain of synesthetes

This study investigates structural brain differences in synesthetes using MRI and finds no significant anomalies supporting synesthetic color experiences.

What’s Up: an assessment of Causal Inference in the Perception of Verticality

This study assesses causal inference in verticality perception using an Alternative-Reality system, finding mixed support for Bayesian fusion and other models.

Neurodynamic explanation of inter-individual and inter-trial variability in cross-modal perception

This study uses EEG and computational modeling to explain inter-individual and inter-trial variability in cross-modal perception by analyzing brain connectivity patterns and neuronal interactions.

Dynamic integration of multisensory turn commands supports active reorienting during ongoing navigation.

The paper studies how Drosophila integrates multisensory cues during navigation, finding that conflicting cues are dynamically summed to produce intermediate turn commands.

Cross-modal and non-monotonic representations of statistical regularity are encoded in local neural response patterns

The paper investigates how the brain encodes uncertainty across sensory modalities and non-monotonically, using multivariate pattern analysis on auditory, visual, and audiovisual stimuli.

Selective attention gates the interactive crossmodal coupling between perceptual systems

The paper shows that selective attention enhances functional coupling between somatosensory and auditory cortical systems during frequency perception.

Responses To Mechanically And Visually Cued Water Waves In The Nervous System Of The Medicinal Leech

The paper quantifies how the S cell in the medicinal leech responds to visual and mechanical water wave cues, finding frequency-dependent sensitivity and no directional selectivity.

Integration of visual information in auditory cortex promotes auditory scene analysis through multisensory binding

The paper shows that visual signals enhance auditory cortex representations when temporally coherent with sound, supporting multisensory binding for auditory scene analysis.

The eardrums move when the eyes move: A multisensory effect on the mechanics of hearing

The paper shows that eardrums move with eye movements in humans and monkeys, creating oscillations unrelated to sound, which may help the brain integrate visual and auditory information.

Infants Are Superior In Implicit Crossmodal Learning And Use Other Learning Mechanisms Than Adults

The paper shows infants detect crossmodal statistics better than adults, who only do so when task-relevant.

Neural Correlates of Multisensory Reliability and Perceptual Weights Emerge at Early Latencies during Audio-visual Integration

This study shows that neural responses to audio-visual integration are modulated by sensory reliability early (84ms) and perceptual weights later (120ms) after stimulus onset.

Behavioural, modeling, and electrophysiological evidence for domain-generality in human metacognition

The paper provides evidence for domain-generality in human metacognition through behavioral, modeling, and electrophysiological analyses across multiple sensory tasks.

Expect to neglect: Cross-modal resource allocation in anticipation of visual load

This study investigates how expectation of visual load modulates neural activity, showing attenuated auditory responses and increased alpha activity when anticipating high visual perceptual load.

Enhanced cross-modal activation of sensory cortex in mouse models of autism

The paper investigates cross-modal plasticity in mouse autism models, finding enhanced auditory responses in visual cortex linked to E/I circuit imbalance.

Audio-visual synchrony and spatial attention enhance processing of dynamic visual stimulation independently and in parallel: a frequency-tagging study

This study investigates how spatial attention and audio-visual synchrony independently enhance early visual processing through distinct neural mechanisms using frequency-tagging.

The impact of visual gaze direction on auditory object tracking

This study investigates how visual gaze direction affects auditory attention and finds that misalignment between gaze and auditory attention increases response times and alters neural activity in specific brain regions.

Developmental dynamics of cross-modality in mouse visual cortex

This study examines how GABAergic inhibition shapes auditory responses and audiovisual interactions in mouse visual cortex during critical periods, revealing a balance of spike modulations that affects sensory integration.

Contributions of local speech encoding and functional connectivity to audio-visual speech integration

The paper investigates how local speech encoding and functional connectivity contribute to audio-visual speech integration using MEG data, finding that enhanced connectivity, not local encoding, predicts the benefit of visual speech cues.

A Bayesian Perspective on Accumulation in the Magnitude System

This study investigates whether a Bayesian magnitude estimation system uses a common prior across different dimensions, finding that duration estimation is resilient to changes in other dimensions while numerosity and surface are affected by evidence accumulation rate.

Multimodal representations of person identity individuated with fMRI

This study shows that the posterior superior temporal sulcus encodes person identity information invariantly across visual and auditory modalities.