Sounds move a static visual object.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Vision provides the most salient information with regard to stimulus motion, but audition can also provide important cues that affect visual motion perception. Here, we show that sounds containing no motion or positional cues can induce illusory visual motion perception for static visual objects.

Methodology/principal findings

Two circles placed side by side were presented in alternation producing apparent motion perception and each onset was accompanied by a tone burst of a specific and unique frequency. After exposure to this visual apparent motion with tones for a few minutes, the tones became drivers for illusory motion perception. When the flash onset was synchronized to tones of alternating frequencies, a circle blinking at a fixed location was perceived as

SUBMITTER: Teramoto W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2924383 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature