ArticleFrontiers in integrative neuroscience2015
A spatially collocated sound thrusts a flash into awareness.
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- Phasic Alertness and Multisensory Integration Contribute to Visual Awareness of Weak Visual Targets in Audio-Visual Stimulation under Continuous Flash Suppression.Vision (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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- Conscious awareness modulates processing speed in the redundant signal effect.Experimental brain research · 2021Article
- Semantic and spatial congruency mould audiovisual integration depending on perceptual awareness.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Modality-specific and multisensory mechanisms of spatial attention and expectation.Journal of vision · 2020Article
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- Integration of audiovisual spatial signals is not consistent with maximum likelihood estimation.Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior · 2019Article
- Invisible Flashes Alter Perceived Sound Location.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Probing Electrophysiological Indices of Perceptual Awareness across Unisensory and Multisensory Modalities.Journal of cognitive neuroscience · 2018Article
- Sounds can boost the awareness of visual events through attention without cross-modal integration.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Interplay between Narrative and Bodily Self in Access to Consciousness: No Difference between Self- and Non-self Attributes.Frontiers in psychology · 2017Article
- Consciousness is more than meets the eye: a call for a multisensory study of subjective experience.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2017Article
- Interactions between space and effectiveness in human multisensory performance.Neuropsychologia · 2016Article
- The COGs (context, object, and goals) in multisensory processing.Experimental brain research · 2016Review
- The Complex Interplay Between Multisensory Integration and Perceptual Awareness.Multisensory research · 2016Review
- Time for Awareness: The Influence of Temporal Properties of the Mask on Continuous Flash Suppression Effectiveness.PloS one · 2016Article
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Abstract
To interact effectively with the environment the brain integrates signals from multiple senses. It is currently unclear to what extent spatial information can be integrated across different senses in the absence of awareness. Combining dynamic continuous flash suppression (CFS) and spatial audiovisual stimulation, the current study investigated whether a sound facilitates a concurrent visual flash to elude flash suppression and enter perceptual awareness depending on audiovisual spatial congruency. Our results demonstrate that a concurrent sound boosts unaware visual signals into perceptual awareness. Critically, this process depended on the spatial congruency of the auditory and visual signals pointing towards low level mechanisms of audiovisual integration. Moreover, the concurrent sound biased the reported location of the flash as a function of flash visibility. The spatial bias of sounds on reported flash location was strongest for flashes that were judged invisible. Our results suggest that multisensory integration is a critical mechanism that enables signals to enter conscious perception.
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