Multisensory perception and integration

The paper shows that the facilitative effect of maternal odor on face categorization in infants decreases from 4 to 12 months, correlating with improved visual processing.

This study shows that dissonant music affects early visual processing by engaging the primary visual cortex through auditory-visual interactions during film viewing.

The paper demonstrates that nonlinear fusion outperforms linear fusion in multisensory integration tasks when sensory signals are statistically dependent, and shows that spiking neural networks can approximate this nonlinear algorithm.

This study investigates how the brain integrates olfactory and trigeminal signals using fMRI and psychophysics, finding multisensory integration in specific brain regions.

The paper compares neural representation of binaural sound localization cues in chicken and barn owl inferior colliculus, finding no distinct subregion differentiation in chicken.

This paper investigates how startling acoustic stimuli shorten reaction times in reflexive reaching tasks by enhancing express visuomotor responses without altering their timing.

The paper applies the noisy encoding of disparity model to predict McGurk effect perception in Japanese speakers, showing high variability and accurate predictions.

This study investigates auditory attentional dynamics using the N2ac component, finding that salient distractors capture attention before targets, while less salient distractors do not.

The paper demonstrates that tactile orientation perception exhibits a robust tilt aftereffect and shows asymmetric crossmodal transfer to vision.

This study investigates how mice form temporal expectations using multisensory stimuli and identifies brain regions involved in predictive processing and motor responses.

The paper investigates how the brain combines visual and auditory information into coherent object representations, finding integrative coding in the anterior temporal lobe.

The paper identifies three subcortical structures in macaques that integrate audio-visual social stimuli based on their congruence and relevance in a social context.

The paper compares visual and sound adaptation effects on cat visual cortex neurons, finding sound adaptation leads to broader tuning curves and increased variance.

The paper shows auditory cortex sends sound location information to visual cortex, but this information is not organized in a retinotopic map.

The paper shows that tactile stimulation suppresses visual activity in primary visual cortex via interneurons receiving input from somatosensory cortex in mice.

The paper shows that reward-associated visual cues reduce the ability to track temporal sound patterns in audiovisual displays, indicating value-driven attentional capture impairs cortical phase locking.

The paper investigates how multisensory information affects ultra-short latency oculomotor inhibition, finding that audiovisual distractors elicit stronger inhibition than unisensory ones.

The paper shows that simultaneous thermal and tactile stimuli enhance perception in mouse forepaw primary somatosensory cortex through changes in neuronal response dynamics and recruitment of silent neurons.

The paper shows that chicks can recognize objects by sight after tactile exposure, suggesting cross-modal recognition does not require multimodal experience.

This study uses EEG and diffusion modeling to show odorant stimulation biases sound localization, with effects strongest when sound location is ambiguous.

This study investigates how audio-visual objects are stored in working memory, showing that both task-relevant and irrelevant features are integrated, with attentional demands varying during recall.

This study investigates how haptic cues can modulate reaction times in multisensory integration using EEG-based BCI, showing that congruent sequential cues yield faster responses than incongruent haptic-auditory-visual (HAV) cues.

This study uses ultra-high field fMRI to examine brain responses to facial and vocal stimuli in marmosets, showing enhanced multisensory integration involving broader neural networks.

The paper investigates whether reduced hearing ability improves visual speech extraction using a neural speech tracking paradigm and finds no such improvement.

This study shows that perceptual uncertainty explains neural activation differences between McGurk and congruent audiovisual speech stimuli, supporting the McGurk illusion as a valid measure of natural speech perception.

The paper shows that audiovisual stimuli increase narrowband gamma activity in mouse V1, originating from the thalamus, suggesting a new role for the LGN in multisensory integration.

This study investigates whether action video game players (AVGPs) outperform non-video game players (NVGPs) in visual search tasks with multisensory cues, finding no consistent advantage for AVGPs and suggesting gender-related differences in response strategies.

The paper explains the Size-Weight Illusion using efficient coding principles, showing that perceptual biases arise from statistical properties of natural environments.

This study investigates how auditory attention influences microsaccade inhibition (MSI) and finds that later stages of MSI are modulated by auditory attention while early stages remain reflexive.

This study investigates age differences in audiovisual integration using fMRI, finding older adults maintain localization accuracy but show increased response times and distinct neural activation patterns.