Multisensory perception and integration

The Contribution of Audition and Proprioception in Unisensory and Multisensory Target Reaching

This study examines how auditory and proprioceptive senses affect reaching accuracy and precision, finding that proprioception enhances precision more than audition, and multisensory input does not further improve precision beyond proprioception alone.

Perception of audio-visual synchrony is modulated by walking speed and step cycle phase

This study shows that walking speed and step cycle phase affect audio-visual synchrony perception, with slower walking reducing sensitivity and synchrony peaking during the swing phase.

Cortical Processing for the Vestibular and Visual Input of Egomotion in Macaque Monkeys: Separate Networks with Targeted Convergence

The paper uses fMRI in macaque monkeys to show that visual and vestibular inputs during egomotion activate distinct cortical networks with specific convergence sites.

Multiplexing of visual-auditory signals in a predominantly auditory brain region

The paper investigates how visual and auditory stimuli are represented in the inferior colliculus, finding that fluctuating neural activity occurs even when one stimulus is non-dominant.

Sound Frequency Predicts the Bodily Location of Auditory-Induced Tactile Sensations in Synesthetic and Ordinary Perception

The paper investigates how sound frequency relates to tactile sensations in synesthetes and controls, finding similar mappings between auditory and tactile perception.

Crossmodal attention develops in the first year of life: Cortical signatures of tactile to visual exogenous spatial cuing at 8 but not 5 months of age

The paper investigates crossmodal attention development in infants, finding that 8-month-olds show tactile-to-visual spatial cuing effects, while 5-month-olds do not.

Pupil size reveals the perceptual quality and effortless nature of synesthesia

This study uses pupillometry to objectively measure synesthetic color phenomenology, showing that pupil size reflects brightness and effortlessness of synesthetic experiences compared to controls.

Separable neurocomputational mechanisms underlying multisensory learning

The paper identifies distinct neurocomputational mechanisms for multisensory learning using a novel task and fMRI, showing dissociable networks for statistical learning, reinforcement learning, and outcome surprise.

Predicting the Sound-Induced Flash Illusion: A Time-Window-of-Integration Approach

This paper introduces a model called SIFI-TWIN to predict the sound-induced flash illusion based on a temporal binding window, showing it explains differences in susceptibility between elderly hearing aid users and non-users.

Causal role of the individual alpha phase in multisensory perception

This study develops a new method to model individual alpha phase relationships with multisensory perception and finds that individual phase coupling affects multisensory integration.

Prefrontal cortex and striatum dissociate modality and learning order in cross-modal sensorimotor learning

The paper investigates how the prefrontal cortex and striatum represent sensory modalities and learning order during cross-modal sensorimotor learning in mice.

Two cortical mechanisms for natural audiovisual processing

The paper identifies two cortical mechanisms for audiovisual processing during naturalistic stimuli using fMRI data and prediction-based approaches.

Linguistic Context Shapes Representations in the Human Visual Cortex

The paper analyzes how linguistic context influences visual cortex representations using fMRI data from a caption-image matching task, identifying two distinct voxel populations with different response patterns.

Functional specialisation of multisensory temporal integration in the mouse superior colliculus

This study investigates how multisensory temporal integration occurs in the mouse superior colliculus by analyzing neural responses to audiovisual stimuli with varying temporal asynchronies.

Behavioural diversity reveals distinct regimes of multisensory integration.

The paper examines multisensory integration in diverse populations and animals, finding age and neurodiversity-related differences in cue combination and distinct neural mechanisms for within- and across-modality integration.

Sustained dynamics and modality-specific network reconfigurations define crossmodal prediction error

This study investigates crossmodal prediction errors using EEG, finding sustained cortical responses and reconfigured networks compared to unimodal errors.

Seeing what you hear: compression of rat visual perceptual space by task-irrelevant sounds

This study shows that task-irrelevant sounds compress rat visual perceptual space based on sound intensity, not temporal modulation frequency.

Visual Attention in Peripersonal Space

This study shows that hand proximity enhances visual processing in V2 by sharpening orientation tuning when visual and proprioceptive inputs align, and suppressing it when they conflict.

Visuospatial attention exerts opposite modulatory effects on explicit and implicit audiovisual subjective synchrony via the frontoparietal network

This study investigates how visuospatial attention modulates explicit and implicit audiovisual synchrony through distinct neural mechanisms, showing opposite effects on their behavioral and oscillatory correlates.

Cerebral Bases and Neural Dynamics of Audiovisual Temporal Binding Window: a TMS study

This study uses TMS to show that early stimulation of IPS and STG enhances audiovisual synchrony perception, while later STG stimulation reduces it, indicating dynamic roles in temporal integration.

Growing Minds, Integrating Senses: Neural and Computational Insights into Age-related Changes in Audio-Visual and Tactile-Visual Learning in Children

This study examines age-related changes in multisensory learning using behavioral, neuroimaging, and computational methods in children, finding faster processing and stronger neural engagement in older children.

Microsaccade direction reveals the variation in auditory selective attention processes

This study investigates how microsaccade direction relates to auditory spatial attention and finds that it is biased toward the attended ear and correlates with auditory brainstem responses.

Visual contributions to the perception of speech in noise

This study assesses the benefit of visual information in speech-in-noise perception through an audiovisual test, showing that visual cues improve speech reception thresholds.

Vision dominates sound in mediating classic cue-induced microsaccadic eye movement modulations in rhesus macaque monkeys

This study investigates how visual and auditory stimuli modulate microsaccadic eye movements in rhesus macaques, finding that vision has a stronger influence than sound on microsaccadic inhibition.

Predictive gaze orienting during navigation in virtual reality

This study shows that auditory cues guide predictive gaze shifts during navigation in virtual reality, improving spatial awareness and reducing collisions.

Crossmodal pitch-luminance association in tortoises

This study shows tortoises associate high-pitched sounds with bright colors and low-pitched sounds with dark colors, similar to humans and chimpanzees.

The size-weight illusion and beyond: a new model of perceived weight

The paper presents a model that accurately predicts perceived weight in the size-weight illusion across various object conditions, showing density's influence is modulated by weight differences.

Prior expectations guide multisensory integration during face-to-face communication

This study uses Bayesian computational modeling to show that prior expectations guide multisensory integration during face-to-face communication, with stronger integration when signals convey congruent communicative intent.

Confidence judgements from fused multisensory percepts

This study investigates whether humans can access uncertainty estimates from individual sensory modalities after multisensory integration, finding that confidence judgments are influenced by the fused percept.

Exploring Brain State Changes Through Reaction Time in a Simultaneity Judgment Task: A Pilot Study on Multisensory Integration

This study investigates whether reaction time in a simultaneity judgment task reflects brain state changes during multisensory integration, using two participants and adaptive stimulus manipulation.