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Audio–visual simultaneity judgments

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Zampini, Massimiliano, Guest, Steve, Shore, David I., Spence, Charles·2005·Perception & Psychophysics

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The relative spatiotemporal correspondence between sensory events affects multisensory integration across a variety of species; integration is maximal when stimuli in different sensory modalities are presented from approximately the same position at about the same time. In the present study, we investigated the influence of spatial and temporal factors on audio-visual simultaneity perception in humans. Participants made unspeeded simultaneous versus successive discrimination responses to pairs of auditory and visual stimuli presented at varying stimulus onset asynchronies from either the same or different spatial positions using either the method of constant stimuli (Experiments 1 and 2) or psychophysical staircases (Experiment 3). The participants in all three experiments were more likely to report the stimuli as being simultaneous when they originated from the same spatial position than when they came from different positions, demonstrating that the apparent perception of multisensory simultaneity is dependent on the relative spatial position from which stimuli are presented.

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    “Further, although Ring and Brener (2018) argue that humans are able to judge very precisely (within 20 ms) whether two stimuli in different modalities are simultaneous (Zampini et al., 2005), a sizeable portion of variance in this task appears to be accounted for by the ability to determine synchronicity of (non-interoceptive) cross-modal signals (Knapp et al., 1997).”

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Authors
Zampini, M., Guest, S., Shore, D. I., & Spence, C.
Affiliations
  • University of Trento (IT)
  • University of Oxford (GB)
  • McMaster University (CA)
Corresponding author
Zampini, Massimiliano
Venue
Perception & Psychophysics
Published
2005-04
Volume
67
Issue
3
Pages
531-544
ISSN
  • 0031-5117 (ISSN-L)
  • 1532-5962
OpenAlex
W2013674599
Cited by
280
References
75
Citations by year
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FWCI
13.34
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Perception & Psychophysics (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Institutional Research Information System (Università degli Studi di Trento) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • University of Oxford
  • Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Multisensory perception and integration
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Music Perception
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Tactile and Sensory Interactions
Keywords
multisensory integration, stimulus onset asynchrony, spatial location, temporal correspondence, cross-modal perception
MeSH terms
Adult, Auditory Perception, Cues, Humans, Judgment, Space Perception, Time Factors, Visual Acuity, Visual Perception

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