Flexible and abstract resolutions to crossmodal conflicts

Donovan, Christa-Lynn; Lindsay, D. Stephen; Kingstone, Alan

doi:10.1016/j.bandc.2004.02.019

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“…Our results accord with but go beyond previous reports (e.g., Walker and Scott, 1981; Donovan et al, 2004; Chen and Yeh, 2009; Klink et al, 2011) that auditory stimuli can impact significantly on judgments for the duration of co-occurring visual stimuli. The new findings extend previous work by showing that: (1) not only can incongruent auditory stimuli significantly impair objective visual performance, but congruent auditory stimuli can benefit visual duration judgments; (2) this applies for visual sensitivity ( d ′) to visual duration in signal-detection terms, rather than affecting mere response bias or criterion; (3) this impact of auditory duration on perception of visual duration depends on whether the audio–visual onsets are synchronous, being eliminated when the sounds lagged here; (4) it also depends on whether the auditory and visual events are similar in length, being reduced, or eliminated when the sounds are triple the duration of corresponding visual events.…”

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“…Several crossmodal effects on subjective time perception in particular have been described (e.g., Walker and Scott, 1981; Donovan et al, 2004; Chen and Yeh, 2009; Klink et al, 2011). Chen and Yeh (2009) reported in an oddball paradigm that auditory stimuli can apparently extend reported visual duration, while visual stimuli had no such impact on reported auditory duration (see also Donovan et al, 2004; Klink et al, 2011; but see also van Wassenhove et al, 2008; Aaen-Stockdale et al, 2011 for alternative accounts).…”

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“…Chen and Yeh (2009) reported in an oddball paradigm that auditory stimuli can apparently extend reported visual duration, while visual stimuli had no such impact on reported auditory duration (see also Donovan et al, 2004; Klink et al, 2011; but see also van Wassenhove et al, 2008; Aaen-Stockdale et al, 2011 for alternative accounts). But despite such suggestions of auditory influences on visual duration perception, to date it has typically been hard to establish whether such influences reflect response biases or instead genuine changes in visual sensitivity, in signal-detection terms (Macmillan and Creelman, 1991).…”

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Auditory Stimulus Timing Influences Perceived duration of Co-Occurring Visual Stimuli

Romei¹,

Haas²,

Mok³

et al. 2011

Front. Psychology

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There is increasing interest in multisensory influences upon sensory-specific judgments, such as when auditory stimuli affect visual perception. Here we studied whether the duration of an auditory event can objectively affect the perceived duration of a co-occurring visual event. On each trial, participants were presented with a pair of successive flashes and had to judge whether the first or second was longer. Two beeps were presented with the flashes. The order of short and long stimuli could be the same across audition and vision (audio–visual congruent) or reversed, so that the longer flash was accompanied by the shorter beep and vice versa (audio–visual incongruent); or the two beeps could have the same duration as each other. Beeps and flashes could onset synchronously or asynchronously. In a further control experiment, the beep durations were much longer (tripled) than the flashes. Results showed that visual duration discrimination sensitivity (d′) was significantly higher for congruent (and significantly lower for incongruent) audio–visual synchronous combinations, relative to the visual-only presentation. This effect was abolished when auditory and visual stimuli were presented asynchronously, or when sound durations tripled those of flashes. We conclude that the temporal properties of co-occurring auditory stimuli influence the perceived duration of visual stimuli and that this can reflect genuine changes in visual sensitivity rather than mere response bias.

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Auditory Stimulus Timing Influences Perceived duration of Co-Occurring Visual Stimuli

Romei¹,

Haas²,

Mok³

et al. 2011

Front. Psychology

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“…For example, it is known that when sounds and light flashes have equal physical durations, the sounds are subjectively perceived as longer than the light flashes (Walker & Scott, 1981; Wearden, Edwards, Fakhri, & Percival 1998). Furthermore, when auditory and visual stimuli of equal physical duration are presented simultaneously, the auditory system dominates the visual system and causes the durations of visual stimuli to be perceived as longer than they physically are (Burr, Banks, & Morrone, 2009; Chen & Yeh, 2009; Donovan, Lindsay, & Kingstone, 2004; Walker & Scott, 1981). …”

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Crossmodal duration perception involves perceptual grouping, temporal ventriloquism, and variable internal clock rates

Klink

Montijn

Wezel

2010

Atten Percept Psychophys

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Here, we investigate how audiovisual context affects perceived event duration with experiments in which observers reported which of two stimuli they perceived as longer. Target events were visual and/or auditory and could be accompanied by nontargets in the other modality. Our results demonstrate that the temporal information conveyed by irrelevant sounds is automatically used when the brain estimates visual durations but that irrelevant visual information does not affect perceived auditory duration (Experiment 1). We further show that auditory influences on subjective visual durations occur only when the temporal characteristics of the stimuli promote perceptual grouping (Experiments 1 and 2). Placed in the context of scalar expectancy theory of time perception, our third and fourth experiments have the implication that audiovisual context can lead both to changes in the rate of an internal clock and to temporal ventriloquism-like effects on perceived on- and offsets. Finally, intramodal grouping of auditory stimuli diminished any crossmodal effects, suggesting a strong preference for intramodal over crossmodal perceptual grouping (Experiment 5).

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“…This is how categories are formed. A rapidly expanding body of research is tackling the question of how information presented concurrently to different senses is combined to form a coherent unitary percept (Donovan et al 2004). This has prompted a transdisciplinary discussion around what has been labelled "the binding problem", involving researchers across many disciplines, including psychology, neuroscience, computational modelling and philosophy (Roskies 1999: 7).…”

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Hierarchical Categorical Perception in Sensing and Cognitive Processes

Bruni

2008

Biosemiotics

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This article considers categorical perception (CP) as a crucial process involved in all sort of communication throughout the biological hierarchy, i.e. in all of biosemiosis. Until now, there has been consideration of CP exclusively within the functional cycle of perception-cognition-action and it has not been considered the possibility to extend this kind of phenomena to the mere physiological level. To generalise the notion of CP in this sense, I have proposed to distinguish between categorical perception (CP) and categorical sensing (CS) in order to extend the CP framework to all communication processes in living systems, including intracellular, intercellular, metabolic, physiological, cognitive and ecological levels. The main idea is to provide an account that considers the heterarchical embeddedness of many instances of CP and CS. This will take me to relate the hierarchical nature of categorical sensing and perception with the equally hierarchical issues of the "binding problem", "triadic causality", the "emergent interpretant" and the increasing semiotic freedom observed in biological and cognitive systems.

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Flexible and abstract resolutions to crossmodal conflicts

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Auditory Stimulus Timing Influences Perceived duration of Co-Occurring Visual Stimuli

Auditory Stimulus Timing Influences Perceived duration of Co-Occurring Visual Stimuli

Crossmodal duration perception involves perceptual grouping, temporal ventriloquism, and variable internal clock rates

Hierarchical Categorical Perception in Sensing and Cognitive Processes

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