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Shared Physiological Correlates of Multisensory and Expectation-Based Facilitation

Perceptual performance in a visual task can be enhanced by simultaneous multisensory information, but can also be enhanced by a symbolic or amodal cue inducing a specific expectation. That similar benefits can arise from multisensory information and within-modality expectation raises the question of...

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Autores principales: Kayser, Stephanie J., Kayser, Christoph
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Society for Neuroscience 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7070445/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32075868
http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0435-19.2019
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description Perceptual performance in a visual task can be enhanced by simultaneous multisensory information, but can also be enhanced by a symbolic or amodal cue inducing a specific expectation. That similar benefits can arise from multisensory information and within-modality expectation raises the question of whether the underlying neurophysiological processes are the same or distinct. We investigated this by comparing the influence of the following three types of auxiliary probabilistic cues on visual motion discrimination in humans: (1) acoustic motion, (2) a premotion visual symbolic cue, and (3) a postmotion symbolic cue. Using multivariate analysis of the EEG data, we show that both the multisensory and preceding visual symbolic cue enhance the encoding of visual motion direction as reflected by cerebral activity arising from occipital regions ∼200–400 ms post-stimulus onset. This suggests a common or overlapping physiological correlate of cross-modal and intramodal auxiliary information, pointing to a neural mechanism susceptive to both multisensory and more abstract probabilistic cues. We also asked how prestimulus activity shapes the cue–stimulus combination and found a differential influence on the cross-modal and intramodal combination: while alpha power modulated the relative weight of visual motion and the acoustic cue, it did not modulate the behavioral influence of a visual symbolic cue, pointing to differences in how prestimulus activity shapes the combination of multisensory and abstract cues with task-relevant information.
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spelling pubmed-70704452020-03-16 Shared Physiological Correlates of Multisensory and Expectation-Based Facilitation Kayser, Stephanie J. Kayser, Christoph eNeuro Research Article: New Research Perceptual performance in a visual task can be enhanced by simultaneous multisensory information, but can also be enhanced by a symbolic or amodal cue inducing a specific expectation. That similar benefits can arise from multisensory information and within-modality expectation raises the question of whether the underlying neurophysiological processes are the same or distinct. We investigated this by comparing the influence of the following three types of auxiliary probabilistic cues on visual motion discrimination in humans: (1) acoustic motion, (2) a premotion visual symbolic cue, and (3) a postmotion symbolic cue. Using multivariate analysis of the EEG data, we show that both the multisensory and preceding visual symbolic cue enhance the encoding of visual motion direction as reflected by cerebral activity arising from occipital regions ∼200–400 ms post-stimulus onset. This suggests a common or overlapping physiological correlate of cross-modal and intramodal auxiliary information, pointing to a neural mechanism susceptive to both multisensory and more abstract probabilistic cues. We also asked how prestimulus activity shapes the cue–stimulus combination and found a differential influence on the cross-modal and intramodal combination: while alpha power modulated the relative weight of visual motion and the acoustic cue, it did not modulate the behavioral influence of a visual symbolic cue, pointing to differences in how prestimulus activity shapes the combination of multisensory and abstract cues with task-relevant information. Society for Neuroscience 2020-03-02 /pmc/articles/PMC7070445/ /pubmed/32075868 http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0435-19.2019 Text en Copyright © 2020 Kayser and Kayser http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided that the original work is properly attributed.
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title_short Shared Physiological Correlates of Multisensory and Expectation-Based Facilitation
title_sort shared physiological correlates of multisensory and expectation-based facilitation
topic Research Article: New Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7070445/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32075868
http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0435-19.2019
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