Salvador Soto-Faraco

..This is the first demonstration that social attention cues have consequences that reach beyond their own sensory modality...

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..e., to ventriloquism) rather than to any emergent property of crossmodal apparent motion...

..The fact that no such recalibration occurred when we used a longer asynchrony (1000 ms) that exceeded the temporal window for audiovisual integration (Experiment 3) supports this conclusion...

..The present findings provide implicit evidence that even proficient bilinguals categorize L2 sounds according to their L1 representations...

..Together these data provide empirical support for the view that multisensory integration of motion signals can occur at a perceptual level...

..The contrast between our visuotactile results and those of previous audiovisual studies is discussed, as are the implications for current theories of the AB...

..These results suggest that tactile, spatially selective attention can operate according to an abstract spatial frame of reference, which is significantly modulated by multisensory contributions from both proprioception and vision...

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..These data are discussed in light of related multisensory phenomena and their support for a "modality appropriateness" interpretation of multisensory integration in motion perception...

..The implications of these results are discussed in light of current findings regarding the representation of tactile and auditory space...

..in Cogn Brain Res 25:499-507, 2005) and can even affect the perception of more complex speech stimuli...

..These results demonstrate the reciprocal nature of audiotactile interactions in spatiotemporal processing, and highlight the important role played by body posture in modulating such crossmodal interactions...

..These results demonstrate that engaging in spatial tasks is not a prerequisite for triggering tactile remapping, and are thus in agreement with previous accounts suggesting that touch is automatically remapped...

..These findings indicate that the available sensory information is used flexibly to incorporate the rubber glove into the body schema...

..We suggest that the interactions between the attentional system and crossmodal binding mechanisms may be much more extensive and dynamic than it was advanced in previous studies...

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..These results highlight the need to consider intramodal perceptual grouping when investigating crossmodal perceptual grouping...

..The results suggest a 'temporal ventriloquism' phenomenon analogous to spatial ventriloquism...

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..In addition, our results reveal that the Colavita effect occurs at a more abstract, rule-based, level of representation than tested in previous research...

..The results obtained are in accord with recent proposals arguing that the visual speech signal is rich in informational content, above and beyond what traditional accounts based solely on visemic confusion matrices would predict...

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..In contrast with the assumption that crossmodal speech integration is automatic, our results suggest that these multisensory binding processes are subject to attentional demands...

..These findings reveal a surprisingly early preparedness for visual language discrimination and highlight infants' selectivity for retaining only necessary perceptual sensitivities...

..These results suggest a differential effect of attention on rule learning and generalization depending on stimulus structure...

..These results therefore indicate that both multisensory facilitation and inhibition can be demonstrated in reaction to the same bimodal event...

..Our results demonstrate that selective attention to a particular sensory modality can modulate--although not completely reverse--visual dominance as illustrated by the Colavita effect...

..This proposal contrasts with classic conceptions of multisensory integration as a homogeneous process whereby all the attributes of a multisensory event are treated in a unified manner...

..Directing attention to the tactile modality did not increase the bias of sound localization toward synchronous tactile stimulation. These results provide the first demonstration of the tactile capture of audition...

..Moreover, this visual modulation seemed to depend critically on the degree to which the visual information about the rubber hands can be attributed to one's own actions, in a process revealing short-term adaptation (Experiment 2)...

..We found that attention does have an effect on how the motion signals are combined across modalities, but only when the susceptibility for capture between the two signals are comparable...

..This previously unsuspected cue to distance reveals a surprisingly interactive system using multisensory information for size/distance perception...

..The implication is that individuals can select inputs from different modalities from different locations more easily than previously had been thought...

..These results highlight the importance of the unimodal perceptual organization of sensory information to the manifestation of multisensory integration...

..Our results suggest that visual speech gestures enhance second language perception at the level of phonological processing especially by way of multisensory integration...

..We hypothesize that this benefit is expressed at an early level of speech analysis...

..Our findings lend support to the notion that perceptual narrowing is a domain-general as well as a pan-sensory developmental process...

..Furthermore, this finding highlights the causal role of human PPC, putatively VIP, in remapping touch into external space...

..Finally, we comment on a series of particular issues which are relevant in multisensory research and potentially addressable within the proposed framework...

..The way in which visual speed information affects how fast we hear a sound move can be well described by a weighted average model that takes into account the visual speed signal in the computation of auditory speed...

..These findings demonstrate that when attentional resources are depleted, word segmentation based on statistical regularities is seriously compromised...

..We evaluated both AB and RB for pairs of targets presented in either the same or different modalities. Under these conditions both AB and RB were observed in vision, AB but not RB was observed in audition, and there was no evidence o..

..The present study therefore illustrates how intramodal and crossmodal perceptual grouping processes interact to determine how the information in complex multisensory environments is parsed...

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..These results support the view that the perceptual and decisional components involved in audiovisual interactions in motion processing can coexist but are largely independent of one another...

..Thus, the effect of spatial attention occurs prior to or at the same time as cross-modal interactions involving motion information...

..This suggests the existence of a mechanism to compensate for audiotactile asynchronies that results in a widening of the temporal window for multisensory integration...

..These findings are explained in terms of the attentional load hypothesis and suggest that, contrary to some claims, attention resources are to a certain extent shared across sensory modalities...

..We conclude that the neurodynamical mechanisms and computational principles underlying the decision-making processes in this perceptual discrimination task are consistent with a fluctuation-driven scenario in a multistable regime...

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