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A simple and efficient method to enhance audiovisual binding tendencies
Individuals vary in their tendency to bind signals from multiple senses. For the same set of sights and sounds, one individual may frequently integrate multisensory signals and experience a unified percept, whereas another individual may rarely bind them and often experience two distinct sensations....
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5407282/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28462016 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3143 |
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author | Odegaard, Brian Wozny, David R. Shams, Ladan |
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description | Individuals vary in their tendency to bind signals from multiple senses. For the same set of sights and sounds, one individual may frequently integrate multisensory signals and experience a unified percept, whereas another individual may rarely bind them and often experience two distinct sensations. Thus, while this binding/integration tendency is specific to each individual, it is not clear how plastic this tendency is in adulthood, and how sensory experiences may cause it to change. Here, we conducted an exploratory investigation which provides evidence that (1) the brain’s tendency to bind in spatial perception is plastic, (2) that it can change following brief exposure to simple audiovisual stimuli, and (3) that exposure to temporally synchronous, spatially discrepant stimuli provides the most effective method to modify it. These results can inform current theories about how the brain updates its internal model of the surrounding sensory world, as well as future investigations seeking to increase integration tendencies. |
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spelling | pubmed-54072822017-05-01 A simple and efficient method to enhance audiovisual binding tendencies Odegaard, Brian Wozny, David R. Shams, Ladan PeerJ Neuroscience Individuals vary in their tendency to bind signals from multiple senses. For the same set of sights and sounds, one individual may frequently integrate multisensory signals and experience a unified percept, whereas another individual may rarely bind them and often experience two distinct sensations. Thus, while this binding/integration tendency is specific to each individual, it is not clear how plastic this tendency is in adulthood, and how sensory experiences may cause it to change. Here, we conducted an exploratory investigation which provides evidence that (1) the brain’s tendency to bind in spatial perception is plastic, (2) that it can change following brief exposure to simple audiovisual stimuli, and (3) that exposure to temporally synchronous, spatially discrepant stimuli provides the most effective method to modify it. These results can inform current theories about how the brain updates its internal model of the surrounding sensory world, as well as future investigations seeking to increase integration tendencies. PeerJ Inc. 2017-04-25 /pmc/articles/PMC5407282/ /pubmed/28462016 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3143 Text en ©2017 Odegaard et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited. |
spellingShingle | Neuroscience Odegaard, Brian Wozny, David R. Shams, Ladan A simple and efficient method to enhance audiovisual binding tendencies |
title | A simple and efficient method to enhance audiovisual binding tendencies |
title_full | A simple and efficient method to enhance audiovisual binding tendencies |
title_fullStr | A simple and efficient method to enhance audiovisual binding tendencies |
title_full_unstemmed | A simple and efficient method to enhance audiovisual binding tendencies |
title_short | A simple and efficient method to enhance audiovisual binding tendencies |
title_sort | simple and efficient method to enhance audiovisual binding tendencies |
topic | Neuroscience |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5407282/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28462016 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3143 |
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