The Content of Imagined Sounds Changes Visual Motion Perception in the Cross-Bounce Illusion.

ABSTRACT: Can what we imagine hearing change what we see? Whether imagined sensory stimuli are integrated with external sensory stimuli to shape our perception of the world has only recently begun to come under scrutiny. Here, we made use of the cross-bounce illusion in which an auditory stimulus presented at the moment two passing objects meet promotes the perception that the objects bounce off rather than cross by one another to examine whether the content of imagined sound changes visual motion perception in a manner that is consistent with multisensory integration. The results from this study revealed that auditory imagery of a sound with acoustic properties typical of a collision (i.e., damped sound) promoted the bounce-percept, but auditory imagery of the same sound played backwards (i.e., ram

SUBMITTER: Berger CC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5223176 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature