A simple and efficient method to enhance audiovisual binding tendencies
Individuals vary in their tendency to bind signals from multiple senses. For the same set of sights and sounds, one individual may frequently integrate multisensory signals and experience a unified percept, whereas another individual may rarely bind them and often experience two distinct sensations....
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| description | Individuals vary in their tendency to bind signals from multiple senses. For the same set of sights and sounds, one individual may frequently integrate multisensory signals and experience a unified percept, whereas another individual may rarely bind them and often experience two distinct sensations. Thus, while this binding/integration tendency is specific to each individual, it is not clear how plastic this tendency is in adulthood, and how sensory experiences may cause it to change. Here, we conducted an exploratory investigation which provides evidence that (1) the brain’s tendency to bind in spatial perception is plastic, (2) that it can change following brief exposure to simple audiovisual stimuli, and (3) that exposure to temporally synchronous, spatially discrepant stimuli provides the most effective method to modify it. These results can inform current theories about how the brain updates its internal model of the surrounding sensory world, as well as future investigations seeking to increase integration tendencies. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-39d7e82b75864119a296251c51b3809c2023-12-03T07:10:01ZengPeerJ Inc.PeerJ2167-83592017-04-015e314310.7717/peerj.3143A simple and efficient method to enhance audiovisual binding tendenciesBrian Odegaard0David R. Wozny1Ladan Shams2Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesIndividuals vary in their tendency to bind signals from multiple senses. For the same set of sights and sounds, one individual may frequently integrate multisensory signals and experience a unified percept, whereas another individual may rarely bind them and often experience two distinct sensations. Thus, while this binding/integration tendency is specific to each individual, it is not clear how plastic this tendency is in adulthood, and how sensory experiences may cause it to change. Here, we conducted an exploratory investigation which provides evidence that (1) the brain’s tendency to bind in spatial perception is plastic, (2) that it can change following brief exposure to simple audiovisual stimuli, and (3) that exposure to temporally synchronous, spatially discrepant stimuli provides the most effective method to modify it. These results can inform current theories about how the brain updates its internal model of the surrounding sensory world, as well as future investigations seeking to increase integration tendencies.https://peerj.com/articles/3143.pdfBinding tendencySensory integrationMultisensory integrationMultisensory learningMultisensory plasticityBayesian causal inference |
| spellingShingle | Brian Odegaard David R. Wozny Ladan Shams A simple and efficient method to enhance audiovisual binding tendencies PeerJ Binding tendency Sensory integration Multisensory integration Multisensory learning Multisensory plasticity Bayesian causal inference |
| title | A simple and efficient method to enhance audiovisual binding tendencies |
| title_full | A simple and efficient method to enhance audiovisual binding tendencies |
| title_fullStr | A simple and efficient method to enhance audiovisual binding tendencies |
| title_full_unstemmed | A simple and efficient method to enhance audiovisual binding tendencies |
| title_short | A simple and efficient method to enhance audiovisual binding tendencies |
| title_sort | simple and efficient method to enhance audiovisual binding tendencies |
| topic | Binding tendency Sensory integration Multisensory integration Multisensory learning Multisensory plasticity Bayesian causal inference |
| url | https://peerj.com/articles/3143.pdf |
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