Year: 2016
Type: review
Abstract: Crossmodal integration is a term applicable to many phenomena in which one sensory modality influences task performance or perception in another sensory modality. We distinguish the term binding as one that should be reserved specifically for the process that underpins perceptual object formation. To unambiguously differentiate binding form other types of integration, behavioral and neural studies must investigate perception of a feature orthogonal to the features that link the auditory and visual stimuli. We argue that supporting true perceptual binding (as opposed to other processes such as decision-making) is one role for cross-sensory influences in early sensory cortex. These early multisensory interactions may therefore form a physiological substrate for the bottom-up grouping of auditory and visual stimuli into auditory-visual (AV) objects.
Source: Trends in Neurosciences
Institutions: University College London, University of Washington
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $3,753
Awards: G1423896556, Cortical Dynamics of Auditory Attention, Visual and auditory perceptual factors affecting spatial release from masking, Listening in a noisy world: the role of visual activity in auditory cortex for sound perception., Listening in a noisy world: the role of visual activity in auditory cortex for sound perception., G8162921107
OpenAlex ID: W2248498780