ArticleNeuropsychologia2018
Neural basis of the crossmodal correspondence between auditory pitch and visuospatial elevation.
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- Cross-modal congruency modulates evidence accumulation, not decision thresholds.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Article
- Crossmodal Correspondence Mediates Crossmodal Transfer from Visual to Auditory Stimuli in Category Learning.Journal of Intelligence · 2024Article
- Involvement of the superior colliculi in crossmodal correspondences.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2024Article
- Cognitive neural responses in the semantic comprehension of sound symbolic words and pseudowords.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
- Neurocomputational mechanisms underlying cross-modal associations and their influence on perceptual decisions.NeuroImage · 2022Article
- Neural Basis of the Sound-Symbolic Crossmodal Correspondence Between Auditory Pseudowords and Visual Shapes.Multisensory research · 2021Article
- May I Smell Your Attention: Exploration of Smell and Sound for Visuospatial Attention in Virtual Reality.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Crossmodal Visuospatial Effects on Auditory Perception of Musical Contour.Multisensory research · 2020Article
- Is It Speech or Song? Effect of Melody Priming on Pitch Perception of Modified Mandarin Speech.Brain sciences · 2019Article
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Abstract
Crossmodal correspondences refer to associations between otherwise unrelated stimulus features in different sensory modalities. For example, high and low auditory pitches are associated with high and low visuospatial elevation, respectively. The neural mechanisms underlying crossmodal correspondences are currently unknown. Here, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to investigate the neural basis of the pitch-elevation correspondence. Pitch-elevation congruency effects were observed bilaterally in the inferior frontal and insular cortex, the right frontal eye field and right inferior parietal cortex. Independent functional localizers failed to provide strong evidence for any of three proposed mechanisms for crossmodal correspondences: semantic mediation, magnitude estimation, and multisensory integration. Instead, pitch-elevation congruency effects overlapped with areas selective for visually presented non-word strings relative to sentences, and with regions sensitive to audiovisual asynchrony. Taken together with the prior literature, the observed congruency effects are most consistent with mediation by multisensory attention.
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