Multisensory perception and integration

Both stimulus-specific and configurational features of multiple visual stimuli shape the spatial ventriloquism effect

The paper investigates how multiple visual stimuli influence sound localization through the ventriloquism effect, finding that multisensory integration depends on both individual and combined spatio-temporal features of the stimuli.

Attention drives visual processing and audiovisual integration during multimodal communication

This study investigates how attention affects auditory and visual processing and their integration during multimodal communication using MEG and RIFT.

SELECTIVELY MANIPULATING SOFTNESS PERCEPTION OF MATERIALS THROUGH SOUND SYMBOLISM

The paper investigates how Turkish onomatopoeic words influence perceived softness of materials through cross-modal interactions, finding that congruent word-video pairs alter softness perception.

Behavior-relevant top-down cross-modal predictions in mouse neocortex

This study investigates how the mouse neocortex resolves conflicting top-down predictions and bottom-up sensory inputs during behavior, showing hierarchical predictive coding in somatosensory and posterior parietal cortices.

High-resolution 7T fMRI reveals the visual sensory zone of the human claustrum

This study uses 7T fMRI to show distinct visual responses in the human claustrum, supporting its role in sensory processing.

A Stimulus-Computable Model for Audiovisual Perception and Spatial Orienting in Mammals

This paper introduces a stimulus-computable model for audiovisual perception that replicates mammalian behavior across species and stimuli with high accuracy.

Visual stimuli modulate local field potentials but drive no high-frequency activity in human auditory cortex

The paper investigates whether visual stimuli drive high-frequency activity in human auditory cortex and finds no significant increase in high-frequency activity despite cross-sensory modulations.

Individual variations in McGurk illusion susceptibility reflect different integration-segregation strategies of audiovisual speech perception

The paper investigates individual differences in McGurk illusion susceptibility and finds they reflect integration-segregation strategies based on unisensory accuracy, supporting Bayesian causal inference theory.

The effect of gaze on EEG measures of multisensory integration in a cocktail party scenario

This study investigates how gaze behavior affects EEG measures of multisensory integration during selective attention in a cocktail party scenario, finding enhanced integration when participants directly attend to a speaker's face.

Behavioural and electrophysiological correlates of the cross-modal enhancement for unaware visual events

The paper investigates cross-modal enhancement of unaware visual events, finding no evidence for multisensory integration but suggesting bottom-up attentional capture explains the behavioral benefit.

Evidence for a Causal Dissociation of the McGurk Effect and Congruent Audiovisual Speech Perception via TMS

The paper uses TMS to show that the left pSTS is causally involved in the McGurk effect but not in the benefits of congruent audiovisual speech.

Parametric information about eye movements is sent to the ears

The paper shows that eye movement-related eardrum oscillations contain parametric information about eye position and movement, which could help align auditory and visual spatial scenes.

The ontogeny of multisensory peripersonal space in human infancy: From visual-tactile links to conscious expectations.

This study investigates how visual motion influences somatosensory processing in infants, showing early multisensory integration and changes in tactile responses with age.

Context dependent multisensory integration: Mechanosensation depends on luminance for robust performance

The paper investigates how mechanosensation and vision integrate in hawkmoths under high luminance, showing both systems adjust to maintain robust flower-tracking behavior.

Dopamine enhances multisensory responses in the dorsomedial striatum

This study shows dopamine enhances bimodal sensory responses in direct pathway MSNs of the dorsomedial striatum through visual response acceleration.

Crossmodal correspondence of natural amplitude modulations

This study investigates how humans perceive crossmodal correspondence between visual, acoustic, and tactile stimuli modulated by amplitude variations in natural sounds, finding that the number of amplitude prominences drives perception rather than temporal variations.

Distinct mechanisms underlie value-driven modulation of visual cortex by previously rewarded visual and auditory stimuli

This study investigates how reward-associated visual and auditory stimuli modulate visual cortex using fMRI, finding distinct neural pathways for each modality.

Neural Basis Of Sound-Symbolic Pseudoword-Shape Correspondences

This study investigates sound symbolism by examining neural responses to audiovisual pseudoword-shape correspondences using fMRI, finding faster reaction times and greater activation for congruent stimuli.

Multimodal mismatch responses in associative but not primary visual cortex evidence hierarchical predictive coding in cortical networks

The paper investigates deviance detection in visual and associative cortices using multimodal stimuli, finding robust responses in associative areas but not primary visual cortex.

Abstract, modality-specific and experience-dependent coding of affect in the human brain

The paper investigates how the brain encodes affect using sensory-specific or abstract codes by analyzing brain activity in blind, deaf, and typically-developed participants during movie viewing.

Cumulative multisensory discrepancies shape the ventriloquism aftereffect but not the ventriloquism bias

The paper investigates how multisensory discrepancies affect the ventriloquism aftereffect and bias, finding they scale differently with discrepancy history.

Redundant representations are required to disambiguate simultaneously presented complex stimuli

The paper addresses the assignment problem in sensory integration by analyzing how redundant representations help disambiguate complex stimuli across modalities and brain regions.

Conserved features of eye movement related eardrum oscillations (EMREOs) across humans and monkeys

This study compares eye movement-related eardrum oscillations (EMREOs) across humans and monkeys, finding shared features and species-specific differences in their waveform characteristics.

Crossmodal visual predictions elicit spatially specific early visual cortex activity but later than real visual stimuli

Metacognition in the audiovisual McGurk illusion: perceptual and causal confidence

This study investigates how observers form perceptual and causal confidence judgments in multisensory integration tasks under causal uncertainty using the audiovisual McGurk illusion.

Computations and neural dynamics of audiovisual causal and perceptual inference in schizophrenia

This study investigates perceptual and causal inference in schizophrenia using psychophysics, Bayesian modeling, and EEG, finding intact computational mechanisms in medicated patients.

Comparing auditory and visual aspects of multisensory working memory using bimodally matched feature patterns

The paper compares auditory and visual aspects of multisensory working memory using bimodally matched stimuli and finds auditory matching is more accurate than visual in certain conditions.

Rapid Audiovisual Integration Guides Predictive Actions

This study shows that auditory and visual signals are integrated to guide interceptive movements, with sound affecting interception within 125 ms of ball launch.

Near-optimal integration of the magnitude Information of time and numerosity

The paper tests whether humans integrate time and numerosity as abstract magnitudes, finding near-optimal integration consistent with maximum likelihood estimation.

Transfer of figure-ground segregation learning is facilitated by a cross-modal auditory feature-based attention cue.

This study shows that cross-modal auditory feature-based attention cues enhance the transfer of figure-ground segregation learning to untrained locations.