Auditory motion information drives visual motion perception.

ABSTRACT:

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 signals, can directly contribute to visual motion perception.

Methodology/principal findings

Static visual flashes were presented at retinal locations outside the fovea together with a lateral auditory motion provided by a virtual stereo noise source smoothly shifting in the horizontal plane. The flash appeared to move by means of the auditory motion when the spatiotemporal position of th

SUBMITTER: Hidaka S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3052321 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature