Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Shui'er Han, Yi-Chuan Chen, Daphne Maurer, David I. Shore, Terri L. Lewis, Brendan M. Stanley, David Alais
Summary: Through the study, it was found that children show the first signs of rapid recalibration in audio-visual simultaneity perception at the age of 9 and reach adult levels of precision at this stage. However, there is little evidence of rapid recalibration for other cross-modal combinations, even when adult levels of temporal precision have been achieved. Thus, the development of audio-visual rapid recalibration appears to depend on the maturity of temporal precision.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Matthew O'Donohue, Philippe Lacherez, Naohide Yamamoto
Summary: When the brain is exposed to a temporal asynchrony between the senses, it will shift its perception of simultaneity towards the previously experienced asynchrony. Musical training can modulate audiovisual temporal recalibration, but does not affect the accuracy of sensory integration.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2022)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Kirsty Ainsworth, Armando Bertone
Summary: This study aimed to assess the differences in audiovisual information integration between autistic children and adolescents. The results showed that TBWs became narrower with age in the autistic group, while there was no change in the neurotypical group. The findings suggest an atypical developmental profile of multisensory integration in autism.
Review
Neurosciences
Saul Quintero, Ladan Shams, Kimia Kamal
Summary: Integration of sensory signals from the same source can enhance perception. The binding tendency, which refers to the inclination to combine stimuli, is influenced by factors like prior expectations. It can be learned through experience and affected by cognitive knowledge. The plasticity of binding tendency varies across individuals and over time. Understanding and increasing binding tendency can have important applications in clinical settings.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
David P. McGovern, Siofra Burns, Rebecca J. Hirst, Fiona N. Newell
Summary: There is growing evidence that multisensory processing changes with age, often resulting in an enlarged temporal binding window and negative clinical outcomes. This study investigated the effects of perceptual training on younger and older participants and found that training improved their audiovisual timing estimation and narrowed the temporal binding window. However, the training had less impact on prior expectations regarding the source of audiovisual signals in older adults.
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Jun Wang, Jiahao Lu, Xiahui Zhang, Lei Jia, Cheng Wang
Summary: This study investigated how collision affects multisensory integration using the classic launching effect paradigm, and found that the attention boost induced by collision might be a key mediating factor for multisensory integration.
ADVANCES IN COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Song Chang, Jinghong Xu, Mengyao Zheng, Les Keniston, Xiaoming Zhou, Jiping Zhang, Liping Yu
Summary: Increasing studies have shown that neural integration of multisensory cues can influence behavioral choices in sensory cortices. In this study, the researchers found that A1 neurons can enhance auditory responses to contralateral choices with task-irrelevant visual cues, facilitating sound discrimination.
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Yasuhiro Takeshima
Summary: The perception of synchrony for audiovisual stimuli is influenced by previous temporal information, leading to a phenomenon called rapid temporal recalibration, where the point of subjective simultaneity is shifted towards the same asynchronous direction as in the previous trial. The magnitude of rapid temporal recalibration has been found to be positively correlated with the width of the temporal binding window (TBW). This study aimed to establish a causal relationship between TBW size and rapid recalibration magnitude through perceptual training that narrowed the TBW width. The results showed a reduction in the magnitude of rapid recalibration after perceptual training, suggesting that TBW size determines the magnitude of rapid recalibration and contributes to the adaptation mechanism for temporal lags between visual and auditory sensations.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Yasuhiro Takeshima
Summary: The study demonstrates that auditory stimuli need to be presented earlier for visual stimuli in the central visual field compared to the peripheral field to perceive subjective simultaneity during temporal order judgment tasks. The subjective simultaneity bandwidth is broader in the central visual field during simultaneity judgment tasks. Rapid recalibration occurs in both visual fields during simultaneity judgment tasks, but only in the central visual field during temporal order judgment and stream/bounce perception tasks. These results indicate that differences in visual processing speed based on visual field modulate the temporal processing of audio-visual stimuli.
Article
Robotics
Ernest Bonnah, Khaza Anuarul Hoque
Summary: In this letter, a rewriting-based algorithm for runtime monitoring of safety requirements expressed in TWTL is presented. The feasibility and efficiency of the proposed approach are demonstrated through two case studies related to UAV surveillance and industrial robotics for manufacturing.
IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION LETTERS
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Anne-Laure Rineau, Bruno Berberian, Jean-Christophe Sarrazin, Lionel Bringoux
Summary: Self-motion perception is influenced by visuo-vestibular integration and the reliability of sensory inputs. This study found that being in control of our own action through manual triggers can enhance motion sensitivity, even when the level of ambiguity increases. The results highlight the importance of considering the internal state and agency in self-motion perception.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Dan Li, Qian Zhang
Summary: The study found that the temporal team mental model has a significant positive predictive effect on team performance, with behavioral integration mediating between the two; at the same time, task complexity positively moderates the relationship between behavioral integration and team performance.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Biophysics
Sophie Rohlf, Patrick Bruns, Brigitte Roeder
Summary: The study found that an immediate ventriloquist aftereffect began at the age of 6-7 in children. In adults, the immediate ventriloquist aftereffect depended on visual cue reliability, while the cumulative ventriloquist aftereffect was not affected. The immediate ventriloquist aftereffect in 6-7-year-olds was independent of visual cue reliability.
MULTISENSORY RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Mikaela Bubna, Melanie Y. Lam, Erin K. Cressman
Summary: This study aimed to determine whether awareness of the temporal lag between motor response and sensory event is necessary for Temporal recalibration (TR) and whether manipulating motor and perceptual judgment tasks would modify the influence of awareness on TR. The results suggest that awareness of the temporal lag does not influence the magnitude of TR achieved and that motor and perceptual judgment task demands do not modulate the influence of awareness on TR.
FRONTIERS IN INTEGRATIVE NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Ivan Camponogara
Summary: This brief review aims to summarize the most influential theories in multisensory integration and sensory-motor control and provide new ideas on the multisensory-motor integration process. The reviewer also proposes an alternative view of how the multisensory integration process unfolds along the action planning and execution and makes several connections with existing multisensory-motor control theories.
NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS
(2023)
Article
Substance Abuse
Jonatan Ottino-Gonzalez, Hugh Garavan, Matthew D. Albaugh, Zhipeng Cao, Renata B. Cupertino, Nathan Schwab, Philip A. Spechler, Nicholas Allen, Eric Artiges, Tobias Banaschewski, Arun L. W. Bokde, Erin Burke Quinlan, Ruediger Bruehl, Catherine Orr, Janna Cousijn, Sylvane Desrivieres, Herta Flor, John J. Foxe, Juliane H. Froehner, Anna E. Goudriaan, Penny Gowland, Antoine Grigis, Andreas Heinz, Robert Hester, Kent Hutchison, Chiang-Shan R. Li, Edythe D. London, Valentina Lorenzetti, Maartje Luijten, Frauke Nees, Rocio Martin-Santos, Jean-Luc Martinot, Sabina Millenet, Reza Momenan, Marie-Laure Paillere Martinot, Dimitri Papadopoulos Orfanos, Martin P. Paulus, Luise Poustka, Lianne Schmaal, Gunter Schumann, Rajita Sinha, Michael N. Smolka, Nadia Solowij, Dan J. Stein, Elliot A. Stein, Anne Uhlmann, Ruth J. Holst, Dick J. Veltman, Henrik Walter, Robert Whelan, Reinout W. Wiers, Murat Yucel, Sheng Zhang, Neda Jahanshad, Paul M. Thompson, Patricia Conrod, Scott Mackey
Summary: Graph theoretic analysis of structural covariance networks provides insights into brain organization in alcohol dependence. This study found that a specific structural covariance network profile can serve as an early marker for alcohol dependence in adults, and may also be a pre-existing risk factor for problematic drinking.
Article
Neurosciences
Raphael Guex, Tomas Ros, Pierre Megevand, Laurent Spinelli, Margitta Seeck, Patrik Vuilleumier, Judith Dominguez-Borras
Summary: This study reveals that oscillatory neural activity in the amygdala may contribute to perceptual gating mechanisms governing face detection. Increased prestimulus power and phase coherence, particularly in the alpha band, were observed when faces were undetected.
Article
Psychiatry
Ana A. Francisco, John J. Foxe, Douwe J. Horsthuis, Sophie Molholm
Summary: We investigated visual processing and adaptation in individuals with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome, a condition associated with an increased risk for schizophrenia. Our findings suggest that there are differences in early visual processing and adaptation between individuals with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome and those with idiopathic schizophrenia. The results indicate that there may be specific neurogenetic aspects associated with the deletion in chromosome 22 and that visual processing measures in the later time window may be markers of psychosis presence and chronicity/severity.
Article
Neurosciences
Eleni Patelaki, John J. Foxe, Kevin A. Mazurek, Edward G. Freedman
Summary: This study investigates the effects of pairing a cognitive task with walking in young adults. The preliminary findings suggest that some participants improve in cognitive task performance while walking, while others do not. Neural activity changes associated with performance improvement may have potential implications for assessing cognitive decline in aging and neurodegeneration.
Article
Genetics & Heredity
Emily J. Knight, Aaron Krakowski, Edward G. Freedman, John S. Butler, Sophie Molholm, John J. Foxe
Summary: This study examined the modulating role of attention in biological motion processing in ASD, finding that individuals with ASD have reduced automatic neural specificity for upright biological motion compared to neurotypical individuals, but are able to discriminate biological from non-biological motion with explicit attention. Additionally, distinctive patterns of covariance were observed between visual potentials evoked by biological motion and functional social ability in the ASD group, suggesting potential implications for the development of higher-order social cognition.
Article
Neurosciences
Raphael Guex, Emilie Meaux, Pierre Megevand, Judith Dominguez-Borras, Margitta Seeck, Patrik Vuilleumier
Summary: Using intracranial electroencephalography, we found that gaze direction has an impact on the neural activity of the amygdala and orbitofrontal cortex. The amygdala shows stronger activity for self-relevant threat signals, while the orbitofrontal cortex shows differential activity for different emotional expressions. These findings provide frequency-specific effects of emotion and gaze on amygdala and orbitofrontal cortex activity.
Article
Neurosciences
Kathryn-Mary Wakim, John J. Foxe, Sophie Molholm
Summary: Motor atypicalities are common in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and research on basic motor processing in autistic individuals is surprisingly sparse. In this study, we analyzed EEG data from a large sample of autistic and neurotypical children and adolescents, revealing clear motor-related neural responses in ASD, but with subtle differences compared to typically developing participants. Group differences were most prominent in the youngest group of children (age 6-9), suggesting the need for further investigations in younger children.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Emily J. Knight, Edward G. Freedman, Evan J. Myers, Alaina S. Berruti, Leona A. Oakes, Cody Zhewei Cao, Sophie Molholm, John J. Foxe
Summary: Individuals with autism spectrum disorder exhibit atypical sensory perception, which is not fully understood. One proposed mechanism is an imbalance in higher-order feedback inputs during sensory perception, resulting in a preference for local object features. This study investigated this theory using visual evoked potentials and found that autistic children had attenuated responses to illusory contours compared to neurotypical controls. These findings suggest that weakened predictive feedback processes may contribute to the visual processing anomalies seen in autism.
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Eleni Patelaki, John J. Foxe, Emma P. Mantel, George Kassis, Edward G. Freedman
Summary: Combining walking with a cognitive task can improve performance in younger and older adults, with the former benefiting cognitively while the latter experiencing motor decline. EEG activity and behavioral responses during walking were correlated with increased response accuracy, while slower walking speeds and changes in EEG activity were associated with aging.
Editorial Material
Neurosciences
Michael Willis, Megan R. Carey, John J. Foxe, Jackie Jones, Nathan Smith, Vidita Vaidya
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Eleni Patelaki, John J. Foxe, Amber L. McFerren, Edward G. Freedman
Summary: This study investigates the neural mechanisms underlying increased cognitive load while walking. The findings suggest that the difficulty of the cognitive task does not affect response accuracy, speed, or gait consistency, but it does lead to changes in EEG components.
Article
Clinical Neurology
Celine Eelbode, Laurent Spinelli, Marco Corniola, Shahan Momjian, Margitta Seeck, Karl Schaller, Pierre Megevand
Summary: In drug-resistant epilepsy patients considering surgery, intracranial EEG (iEEG) can help identify the potential epileptogenic zone. However, in some cases, iEEG fails to pinpoint the exact location of seizure onsets. Reimplantation of additional iEEG electrodes may offer the possibility of resective epilepsy surgery to these patients without increasing complications or compromising seizure control.
Article
Clinical Neurology
Laurent Sheybani, Pierre Megevand, Nicolas Roehri, Laurent Spinelli, Andreas Kleinschmidt, Pieter van Mierlo, Margitta Seeck, Serge Vulliemoz
Summary: Sleep can modulate epilepsy, but the effects of epilepsy on sleep remain unclear. A study by Sheybani et al. found that patients with focal epilepsy show asymmetrical expression of sleep electrophysiological activities, providing insights into the interaction between epilepsy and normal brain networks.
BRAIN COMMUNICATIONS
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Emily L. Isenstein, Edward G. Freedman, Jiayi Xu, Ian A. DeAndrea-Lazarus, John J. Foxe
Summary: This study evaluated electrophysiological discrimination of parametric somatosensory stimuli in healthy young adults to understand how the brain processes the duration of tactile information. The results showed that participants did not electrophysiologically discriminate between 100 and 115 ms, but they exhibited distinct electrophysiological responses when the deviant stimuli were 130, 145, and 160 ms. These findings contribute to a better understanding of tactile sensitivity in different clinical conditions.