Most research on object individuation in infants has focused on the visual domain. Yet the problem of object individuation is not unique to the visual system, but shared by other sensory modalities. This research examined 4.5-month-old infants' capacity to use auditory information to individuate objects. Infants were presented with events in which they heard 2 distinct sounds, separated by a te...

Parsing of information from the world into objects and events occurs in both the visual and auditory modalities. It has been suggested that visual and auditory scene perception involve similar principles of perceptual organization. This study investigated cross-modal scene perception by determining whether an auditory stimulus could facilitate visual object segregation. Specifically, we examine...

This paper explores the use of a physics-based sound model of continuous contact for auditory display in interactive settings. An audio-visual interactive display is developed in which the sound model is controlled by the user’s gestures. The display is used to investigate to what extent audition can substitute for haptic feedback in conveying perception of inertial properties of a manipulated ...

Information integration across different sensory modalities contributes to object recognition, the generation of associations and long-term memory representations. Here, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging adaptation to investigate the presence of sensory integrative effects at cortical levels as early as nonprimary auditory and extrastriate visual cortices, which are implicated in in...

We have recently demonstrated using fMRI that a region within the human lateral occipital complex (LOC) is activated by objects when either seen or touched. We term this cortical region LOtv for the lateral occipital tactile-visual region. We report here that LOtv voxels tend to be located in sub-regions of LOC that show preference for graspable visual objects over faces or houses. We further e...

In a joint go/no-go Simon task, each of two participants is to respond to one of two non-spatial stimulus features by means of a spatially lateralized response. Stimulus position varies horizontally and responses are faster and more accurate when response side and stimulus position match (compatible trial) than when they mismatch (incompatible trial), defining the social Simon effect or joint s...

how to cite this article: ververi a, vargiami e, v papadopoulou v, tryfonas d, zafeiriou di. brainstem auditory evoked potentials in boys with autism: still searching for the hidden truth. iran j child neurol. spring 2015;9(2):21-28. abstract objective brainstem auditory evoked potentials (baeps) have long been utilized in the investigation of auditory modulation and, more specifically, auditor...

When two individuals interact in a collaborative task, such as carrying a sofa or a table, usually spatiotemporal coordination of individual motor behavior will emerge. In many cases, interpersonal coordination can arise independently of verbal communication, based on the observation of the partners’ movements and/or the object’s movements. In this study, we investigate how social coupling betw...