Audiovisual integration in depth: multisensory binding and gain as a function of distance.

ABSTRACT: The integration of information across sensory modalities is dependent on the spatiotemporal characteristics of the stimuli that are paired. Despite large variation in the distance over which events occur in our environment, relatively little is known regarding how stimulus-observer distance affects multisensory integration. Prior work has suggested that exteroceptive stimuli are integrated over larger temporal intervals in near relative to far space, and that larger multisensory facilitations are evident in far relative to near space. Here, we sought to examine the interrelationship between these previously established distance-related features of multisensory processing. Participants performed an audiovisual simultaneity judgment and redundant target task in near and far space, while audi

SUBMITTER: Noel JP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6010498 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature