Recent studies have found that self-motion perception induced by simultaneous presentation of visual and auditory motion is facilitated when the directions of visual and auditory motion stimuli are identical. They did not, however, examine possible contributions of auditory motion information for determining direction of self-motion perception. To examine this, a visual stimulus projected on a ...

BACKGROUND hearing impairment has a negative impact on communication. This impact can be minimized by hearing aids fitting and auditory training. AIM to verify the effectiveness of auditory training in elderly individuals, new users of hearing aids, regarding the benefit in fitting. METHOD forty-two individuals with mild to moderate neurosensorial hearing loss, ranging in age from 60 to 90 ...

spatial correspondence A systematic relationship falling short of registry between the unimodal receptive field locations in individual multimodal neurons. Correspondence can also occur between the receptive fields of neighboring unimodal neurons that respond to different modalities. linear function A function f(x)1⁄4mx, wherem is a constant. Linear functions have the property of superimposibil...

How we measure time and integrate temporal cues from different sensory modalities are fundamental questions in neuroscience. Sensitivity to a "beat" (such as that routinely perceived in music) differs substantially between auditory and visual modalities. Here we examined beat sensitivity in each modality, and examined cross-modal influences, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to...

It is well known that auditory and visual onsets presented at a particular location can capture our visual attention. However, the question whether or not such attentional capture disappears when attention is focused endogenously beforehand has not yet been answered. Moreover, previous studies have not differentiated between capture by onsets presented at a non-target (invalid) location and pos...

Recent findings suggest that neural representations in early auditory cortex reflect not only the physical properties of a stimulus, but also high-level, top-down, and even cross-modal information. However, the nature of cross-modal information in auditory cortex remains poorly understood. Here, we used pattern analyses of fMRI data to ask whether early auditory cortex contains information abou...