Multisensory perception and integration

Disrupted Top-Down Modulation as a Mechanism of Impaired Multisensory Processing in Autistic Children

This study identifies disrupted multisensory processing in autistic children through EEG analysis, showing reduced theta-band connectivity and multisensory integration compared to controls.

Analyzing multisensory integration: dos and donts

The paper argues that behavioral measures of multisensory integration are composite and misinterpreted, proposing a model-based inference pipeline to disentangle underlying factors.

Early Emergence of Cultural Differences in Audiovisual Speech Perception

The paper investigates cultural differences in audiovisual speech perception in infants, finding that Canadian infants show earlier integration of auditory and visual cues than Chinese infants.

Feel the Beat: The Impact of Rhythms on Dynamic Visual Search

This study shows that auditory rhythms improve visual task performance in a non-rhythmic search task, with benefits depending on rhythm tempo and individual motor tempo.

Attention and Explicit Knowledge Drive Predictive Sharpening in Early Visual Cortex

The paper investigates how attention and explicit knowledge influence predictive sharpening in early visual cortex using fMRI.

Behavioral evidence for visually dominant audiovisual motion integration

The paper investigates audiovisual motion integration, finding visual dominance and attentional modulation in motion perception tasks.

Topography of distance-modulated multisensory object location encoding in mouse area RL

The paper investigates how distance modulates multisensory integration in mouse area RL, showing that visuo-tactile integration shifts from tactile-dominant to visual-dominant with increasing distance.

Drowsiness alters the neural dynamics but not the core computations of multisensory integration

This study shows that multisensory integration remains functional during drowsiness, with preserved core computations but altered neural dynamics.

Ocular speech tracking persists in blindness, but its dynamics and oculo-cerebral connectivity depend on visual status

The paper investigates ocular speech tracking in blind and sighted individuals, finding it is not modulated by speech intelligibility and has two frequency-specific components influenced by visual experience.

Frontal cortex organization supporting audiovisual processing during naturalistic viewing

The paper identifies a modality-specific gradient in the frontal cortex during naturalistic audiovisual processing, showing dynamic adaptation to different contexts.

Multisensory attenuation of the pupil light response in autistic and non-autistic children

This study examines how auditory stimuli modulate the pupil light reflex in autistic and non-autistic children, finding similar cross-modal effects across groups.

When one race is not enough: a relay model explains multisensory response times

The paper introduces the relay model to explain multisensory response time acceleration, showing it captures the redundant signal effect and resolves race model inequality violations.

Rearing condition affects behavioral response to cross-modal expectancy violation paradigm in zebra finches

This study shows that rearing conditions in zebra finches affect their behavioral response to audiovisual stimuli, indicating that early sensory experience influences multisensory integration during mate recognition.

Metacognitive Reactivity and Temporal Perception: The Influence of Confidence Ratings on the Temporal Binding Window

This study investigates how confidence ratings affect temporal binding windows in two time perception tasks, finding reactivity effects and shared mechanisms between perceptual and metacognitive processes.

Integrating multiple sensory modalities during dyadic interactions drives self-other differentiation at the behavioral and electrocortical level

The paper shows that integrating multiple sensory modalities during dyadic interactions increases self-other differentiation and reduces cross-modal integration in behavioral and neural responses.

Aligned representation of visual and tactile motion directions in hMT+/V5 and fronto- parietal regions

The paper shows that hMT+/V5 and fronto-parietal regions encode visual and tactile motion directions using a common external frame of reference, independent of body posture.

Broad generalisation of the ventriloquism aftereffect across sound frequencies

The paper investigates how the ventriloquism aftereffect generalizes across sound frequencies, finding it persists across all tested frequencies after audiovisual exposure.

Inverted encoding of neural responses to audiovisual stimuli reveals super-additive multisensory enhancement

The paper uses inverted encoding to analyze EEG responses to audiovisual stimuli and finds super-additive multisensory integration in multivariate patterns, not univariate responses.

Causal inference shapes crossmodal postdiction in multisensory integration

The paper investigates crossmodal postdiction in the audiovisual rabbit illusion using Bayesian causal inference models, showing that the BCI framework explains the phenomenon better than other models.

Matching sounds to shapes: Evidence of the Bouba-Kiki effect in naive baby chicks

The study tests the Bouba-Kiki effect in three-day-old chicks, finding they associate spiky shapes with 'Kiki' and round shapes with 'Bouba', suggesting an innate perceptual mechanism.

Locomotion-induced neural activity independent of auditory feedback in the mouse inferior colliculus

This study shows that mouse inferior colliculus neurons respond to locomotion independently of auditory feedback, with both predictive and feedback components.

Crossmodal Interaction of Flashes and Beeps Across Time and Number Follows Bayesian Causal Inference

This study extends Bayesian Causal Inference (BCI) to multidimensional sensory processing, showing it accurately predicts multisensory perception outcomes across varying temporal and numerical disparities.

Augmentation of self-motion perception with synthetic auditory cues

This study tests if synthetic auditory cues can improve self-motion perception when combined with vestibular cues, finding improved thresholds but suboptimal integration due to underweighting of synthetic cues.

The neural organization of visual information in the auditory cortex of the congenitally deaf

This study uses fMRI to investigate retinotopic responses in the auditory cortex of congenitally deaf individuals, finding cross-modal visual representations in the deaf but not in hearing participants.

A Deep Neural Network Model of Audiovisual Speech Recognition Reports the McGurk Effect

The paper demonstrates that a deep neural network model, AVHuBERT, can replicate the McGurk effect, showing similar perceptual responses to humans when exposed to audiovisual speech stimuli.

The Ventral Attention Network Mediates Attentional Reorienting to Cross-Modal Expectancy Violations: Evidence from EEG and fMRI

This study investigates the role of the Ventral Attention Network (VAN) in attentional reorienting during cross-modal expectancy violations using EEG and fMRI.

Parietal alpha frequency shapes own-body perception by modulating the temporal integration of bodily signals

The paper shows that individual alpha frequency from the parietal cortex predicts temporal binding windows and body ownership perception, with faster frequencies narrowing windows and increasing sensitivity.

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.