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.
Article
Ophthalmology
Collins Opoku-Baah, Mark T. Wallace
Summary: This study found that binocular viewing enhances audiovisual temporal acuity for simple low-level audiovisual stimuli in normally-sighted individuals. Modeling results suggest that this effect may stem from enhanced sensory representations evidenced as a reduction in sensory noise affecting the measurement of physical asynchrony during audiovisual temporal perception.
INVESTIGATIVE OPHTHALMOLOGY & VISUAL SCIENCE
(2021)
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
Behavioral Sciences
Naomi Gotow, Tatsu Kobayakawa
Summary: This study found that the congruency between odor and taste is related to the temporal resolution of synchrony perception, with higher congruency leading to lower temporal resolution.
BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR
(2023)
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
Jeannette R. Mahoney, Joe Verghese, Claudene George
Summary: This study explores the impact of diabetes on multisensory integration and mobility in older adults, finding that diabetes is associated with reduced visual-somatosensory integration and negatively affects balance and gait. The results provide evidence of the adverse effect of diabetes on both multisensory and motor functioning in older adults.
Article
Psychology, Mathematical
Gianluca Marsicano, Caterina Bertini, Luca Ronconi
Summary: This study demonstrates the effectiveness of sensory entrainment in improving audiovisual temporal acuity by modulating ongoing neural oscillations.
PSYCHONOMIC BULLETIN & REVIEW
(2023)
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
Psychology
Jessica L. Pepper, Barrie Usherwood, Theodoros M. Bampouras, Helen E. Nuttall
Summary: During multisensory integration, the temporal binding window (TBW) refers to the time range in which visual and auditory information can be perceived as synchronous. Older adults have a wider TBW, leading to erroneous integration of asynchronous sensory inputs. Attentional cues can narrow the TBW in younger adults, but it is unclear if older adults can do the same due to age-related declines in attentional control. This study found that the attentional manipulation significantly affected audiovisual integration in younger adults but not in older adults, indicating attentional deficits in multisensory integration for older adults.
ATTENTION PERCEPTION & PSYCHOPHYSICS
(2023)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Hame Park, Julia Nannt, Christoph Kayser
Summary: As humans age, the way they exploit multisensory information for decision-making changes, attributed to factors such as reduced precision in peripheral sensory representations, changes in cognitive inference, and declines in memory. Research shows that biases in audio-visual integration differ between young and older adults, with age-related changes in ventriloquism bias being linked to decline in spatial hearing rather than cognitive processes. These findings suggest a shift from sensory-driven to behavior-driven influence of past multisensory experiences on perceptual decisions with age.
Review
Behavioral Sciences
Samuel A. Jones, Uta Noppeney
Summary: The processing of multisensory signals changes with age. Older adults often benefit as much as younger individuals from congruent multisensory stimuli, but are more negatively impacted by intersensory conflict.
Article
Psychiatry
Giulio Di Cosmo, Marcello Costantini, Ettore Ambrosini, Anatolia Salone, Giovanni Martinotti, Mariangela Corbo, Massimo Di Giannantonio, Francesca Ferri
Summary: According to the dimensional approach to psychosis, there is a continuum from low schizotypy to schizophrenia patients, with compromised sensory processing across the continuum. Two studies were conducted to investigate tolerance to asynchronies in auditory and tactile processing across this continuum, showing larger simultaneity ranges with increasing levels of schizotypy or in schizophrenia patients.
JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH
(2021)
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
Psychology, Experimental
Morgane Chassignolle, Anne Giersch, Jennifer T. Coull
Summary: Even when participants cannot consciously perceive the temporal order of two consecutive stimuli, the relative sequence of events can still be processed subconsciously and used to optimize performance.
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Haocheng Zhu, Xiaoyu Tang, Tingji Chen, Jiajia Yang, Aijun Wang, Ming Zhang
Summary: Recent studies have shown that auditory-dominated training can improve multisensory temporal integration precision, evidenced by a shift in the point of subjective simultaneity (PSS) and a narrowing of the temporal binding window (TBW). These findings support a Bayesian model of causal inference, suggesting that perceptual learning reduces susceptibility to sound-induced visual illusions while enhancing precision in audiovisual temporal estimation.
CONSCIOUSNESS AND COGNITION
(2023)