Kinesthetic information modulates visual motion perception

Kinesthetic information disambiguates visual motion signals

Numerous studies have shown that extra-retinal signals can disambiguate motion information created by movements of the eye or head. We report a new form of cross-modal sensory integration in which the kinesthetic information generated by active hand movements essentially captures ambiguous visual motion information. Several previous studies have shown that active movement can bias observers' pe...

Auditory Motion Information Drives Visual Motion Perception

BACKGROUND Vision provides the most salient information with regard to the stimulus motion. However, it has recently been demonstrated that static visual stimuli are perceived as moving laterally by alternating left-right sound sources. The underlying mechanism of this phenomenon remains unclear; it has not yet been determined whether auditory motion signals, rather than auditory positional sig...

Smelling directions: Olfaction modulates ambiguous visual motion perception

Senses of smells are often accompanied by simultaneous visual sensations. Previous studies have documented enhanced olfactory performance with concurrent presence of congruent color- or shape- related visual cues, and facilitated visual object perception when congruent smells are simultaneously present. These visual object-olfaction interactions suggest the existences of couplings between the o...

Gait Affects Both Kinesthetic and Visual Perception of Distance Traversed

Path integration is based upon the use of sensory information to perceive the angles turned and distances traversed by the body as it moves through the world [1]. Perception of the distances traveled during navigation is known to depend upon sources of visual and non-visual information. Non-visual information has been shown to principally rely upon information derived from the movements of the ...

Perception of Visual Motion