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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
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.
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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
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.
Article
Biology
Irene Togoli, Michele Fornaciai, Domenica Bueti
Summary: Magnitude information is crucial for interacting with the external environment, and the integration between numerosity and duration depends on the stimuli used and the neural processing dynamics.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2021)
Article
Neurosciences
Johannes Rennig, Michael S. Beauchamp
Summary: Regions of the human posterior superior temporal gyrus and sulcus are responsible for processing visual and auditory speech, and successful integration of visual and auditory speech produces a characteristic neural signature that benefits the comprehension of noisy auditory speech.
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)
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
Psychology, Biological
Steffen Buergers, Uta Noppeney
Summary: This study provides evidence that alpha oscillation frequency does not influence observers' ability to parse sensory signals into discrete perceptual events. This conclusion is important for our understanding of how the brain processes sensory inputs.
NATURE HUMAN BEHAVIOUR
(2022)
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
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Sophia Piller, Irene Senna, Marc O. O. Ernst
Summary: The Bouba-Kiki effect is the systematic mapping between round/spiky shapes and speech sounds. In the size-weight illusion, participants judge the smaller of two equally-weighted objects as being heavier. This study examined the contribution of visual experience to the development of these phenomena by comparing three groups: early blind individuals, individuals treated for congenital cataracts, and typically sighted controls. The findings suggest that visual experience plays a pivotal role in these phenomena and that a short period of visual experience, even gained later in life, is sufficient for participants to pick up regularities in the environment and contribute to the development of these effects.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Birgitta Dresp-Langley
Summary: The analysis of grip force signals customized to hand and finger movements provides valuable insights into somatosensory cognition. Recent advancements in technology allow for wireless monitoring of grip force signals, which can be used to investigate the relationship between somatosensory brain mechanisms and motor control. By studying the planning and execution of hand movements during cognitive tasks, researchers can observe the evolution of grip force control and cognitive changes. Grip forces can be mapped to brain networks governing somatosensory processes, leading to specific task expertise or skill.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Yue Zhang, Johannes Rennig, John F. Magnotti, Michael S. Beauchamp
Summary: Humans have the ability to decode speech even in noisy environments. Seeing the talker's face improves intelligibility and there are individual differences in perceiving noisy speech. A multivariate BOLD fMRI measure is introduced to explain these observations.
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Geriatrics & Gerontology
Roee Holtzer, Jennifer Yuan, Joe Verghese, Jeannette R. Mahoney, Meltem Izzetoglu, Cuiling Wang
JOURNALS OF GERONTOLOGY SERIES A-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND MEDICAL SCIENCES
(2017)
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Biophysics
Kristina Dumas, Roee Holtzer, Jeannette R. Mahoney
MULTISENSORY RESEARCH
(2016)
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Neurosciences
Roee Holtzer, Chelsea Schoen, Eleni Demetriou, Jeannette R. Mahoney, Meltem Izzetoglu, Cuiling Wang, Joe Verghese
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2017)
Article
Neurosciences
Jeannette R. Mahoney, Mooyeon Oh-Park, Emmeline Ayers, Joe Verghese
Article
Neurosciences
Michelle Chen, Sarah Pillemer, Sarah England, Meltem Izzetoglu, Jeannette R. Mahoney, Roee Holtzer
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Daniel Santos, Jeannette R. Mahoney, Gilles Allali, Joe Verghese
JOURNALS OF GERONTOLOGY SERIES A-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND MEDICAL SCIENCES
(2018)
Review
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Uros Marusic, Joe Verghese, Jeannette R. Mahoney
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION
(2018)
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Jeannette R. Mahoney, Kelly Cotton, Joe Verghese
JOURNALS OF GERONTOLOGY SERIES A-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND MEDICAL SCIENCES
(2019)
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Jeannette R. Mahoney, Joe Verghese
FRONTIERS IN AGING NEUROSCIENCE
(2018)
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Jeannette R. Mahoney, Joe Verghese
JOURNALS OF GERONTOLOGY SERIES A-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND MEDICAL SCIENCES
(2020)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Jeannette R. Mahoney, Joe Verghese
JOVE-JOURNAL OF VISUALIZED EXPERIMENTS
(2019)
Editorial Material
Biophysics
Jeannette R. Mahoney, Michael Barnett-Cowan
MULTISENSORY RESEARCH
(2019)
Article
Neurosciences
Brenda R. Malcolm, John J. Foxe, Sonja Joshi, Joe Verghese, Jeannette R. Mahoney, Sophie Molholm, Pierfilippo De Sanctis
Summary: Behavioral findings indicate that aging affects cortical sensorimotor mechanisms involved in postural control, with older adults showing increased sway in challenging balance tasks. Neuro-oscillatory modulations were observed in midfrontal and parietal regions, with younger adults exhibiting more pronounced changes in theta spectral power during tandem stance. Older adults displayed widespread mu and beta suppression as demands on postural control increased, particularly during tandem stance, highlighting potential early cortical correlates of balance impairments.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Joe Verghese, Emmeline Ayers, Jeannette R. Mahoney, Anne Ambrose, Cuiling Wang, Roee Holtzer
NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASE MANAGEMENT
(2016)