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ArticleNeuroscience of consciousness2020

Seeing objects improves our hearing of the sounds they make.

Kingson Man, Gabriela Melo, Antonio Damasio, Jonas Kaplan

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Article in Neuroscience of consciousness, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Kingson ManBrain and Creativity Institute, University of Southern California, 3620A McClintock Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA.
Gabriela MeloInstitute of Basic Health Sciences, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, 500 Sarmento Leite Street, Porto Alegre, RS, 90050-170, Brazil.
Antonio DamasioBrain and Creativity Institute, University of Southern California, 3620A McClintock Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA.
Jonas KaplanBrain and Creativity Institute, University of Southern California, 3620A McClintock Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

It has been established that lip reading improves the perception of auditory speech. But does seeing objects themselves help us hear better the sounds they make? Here we report a series of psychophysical experiments in humans showing that the visual enhancement of auditory sensitivity is not confined to speech. We further show that the crossmodal enhancement was associated with the conscious visualization of the stimulus: we can better hear the sounds an object makes when we are conscious of seeing that object. Our work extends an intriguing crossmodal effect, previously circumscribed to speech, to a wider domain of real-world objects, and suggests that consciousness contributes to this effect.

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bindingimagerymultisensory integrationpsychophysics

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PMID32793393
PMCPMC7415264

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