ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2015
Melodic sound enhances visual awareness of congruent musical notes, but only if you can read music.
Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Brain-Wave Music Enhances Inhibitory Control Performance by Modulating Oscillations in the Motor Cortex and Frontoparietal Network.Neural plasticity · 2026Article
- Visuotactile object processing in binocular rivalry: The role of shape congruence, voluntary action, and spatial colocalization.Journal of vision · 2025Article
- Auditory guidance of eye movements toward threat-related images in the absence of visual awareness.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2024Article
- Semantic and spatial congruency mould audiovisual integration depending on perceptual awareness.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Judging Relative Onsets and Offsets of Audiovisual Events.Vision (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Recent cross-modal statistical learning influences visual perceptual selection.Journal of vision · 2018Article
- Effects of Visual Predictive Information and Sequential Context on Neural Processing of Musical Syntax.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
- Audio-visual interactions uniquely contribute to resolution of visual conflict in people possessing absolute pitch.PloS one · 2017Article
- The Complex Interplay Between Multisensory Integration and Perceptual Awareness.Multisensory research · 2016Review
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Predictive influences of auditory information on resolution of visual competition were investigated using music, whose visual symbolic notation is familiar only to those with musical training. Results from two experiments using different experimental paradigms revealed that melodic congruence between what is seen and what is heard impacts perceptual dynamics during binocular rivalry. This bisensory interaction was observed only when the musical score was perceptually dominant, not when it was suppressed from awareness, and it was observed only in people who could read music. Results from two ancillary experiments showed that this effect of congruence cannot be explained by differential patterns of eye movements or by differential response sluggishness associated with congruent score/melody combinations. Taken together, these results demonstrate robust audiovisual interaction based on high-level, symbolic representations and its predictive influence on perceptual dynamics during binocular rivalry.
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