Temporal binding as multisensory integration: Manipulating perceptual certainty of actions and their effects.

ABSTRACT: It has been proposed that statistical integration of multisensory cues may be a suitable framework to explain temporal binding, that is, the finding that causally related events such as an action and its effect are perceived to be shifted towards each other in time. A multisensory approach to temporal binding construes actions and effects as individual sensory signals, which are each perceived with a specific temporal precision. When they are integrated into one multimodal event, like an action-effect chain, the extent to which they affect this event's perception depends on their relative reliability. We test whether this assumption holds true in a temporal binding task by manipulating certainty of actions and effects. Two experiments suggest that a relatively uncertain sensory signal in s

SUBMITTER: Klaffehn AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8550101 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature