Where word and world meet: Language and vision share an abstract representation of symmetry.

A Hafri, LR Gleitman, B Landau… - Journal of Experimental …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Symmetry is ubiquitous in nature, in logic and mathematics, and in perception, language,
and thought. Although humans are exquisitely sensitive to visual symmetry (eg, of a …

Visual cortex responds to sound onset and offset during passive listening

D Brang, J Plass, A Sherman… - Journal of …, 2022 - journals.physiology.org
Sounds enhance our ability to detect, localize, and respond to co-occurring visual targets.
Research suggests that sounds improve visual processing by resetting the phase of ongoing …

Event related message processing: Perceiving and remembering changes in films with and without soundtrack

TGK Meitz, HS Meyerhoff, M Huff - Media Psychology, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Hollywood movies provide continuous audiovisual information. Yet, information conveyed by
movies address different sensory systems. For a broad variety of media applications (such …

Context modulates the impact of auditory information on visual anticipation

R Cañal-Bruland, HS Meyerhoff, F Müller - Cognitive Research: Principles …, 2022 - Springer
Research on the impact of auditory information on visual anticipation in tennis suggests that
the intensity of racket-ball-contact sounds systematically biases estimates of the ball's …

Exploring the effectiveness of auditory, visual, and audio-visual sensory cues in a multiple object tracking environment

J Föcker, P Atkins, FC Vantzos, M Wilhelm… - Attention, Perception, & …, 2022 - Springer
Maintaining object correspondence among multiple moving objects is an essential task of
the perceptual system in many everyday life activities. A substantial body of research has …

The beep-speed illusion: Non-spatial tones increase perceived speed of visual objects in a forced-choice paradigm

HS Meyerhoff, NA Gehrer, S Merz, C Frings - Cognition, 2022 - Elsevier
We introduce a new audio-visual illusion revealing the interplay between audio-visual
integration and selective visual attention. This illusion involves two simultaneously moving …

Long-term memory representations for audio-visual scenes

HS Meyerhoff, O Jaggy, F Papenmeier, M Huff - Memory & Cognition, 2023 - Springer
In this study, we investigated the nature of long-term memory representations for naturalistic
audio-visual scenes. Whereas previous research has shown that audio-visual scenes are …

The effects of recent perceptual history on stream-bounce perception.

M Zeljko, PM Grove - Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human …, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
We examine perceptual disambiguation and crossmodal interactions by considering the
effect of recent perceptual history on stream-bounce perception. First, we tested the …

[HTML][HTML] Perception of causality and synchrony dissociate in the audiovisual bounce-inducing effect (ABE)

J Vroomen, M Keetels - Cognition, 2020 - Elsevier
A sound can cause 2 visual streaming objects appear to bounce (the audiovisual bounce-
inducing effect, ABE). Here we examined whether the stream/bounce percept affects …

The influence of tDCS on perceived bouncing/streaming

MA Friehs, MJ Stegemann, S Merz, C Geißler… - Experimental brain …, 2023 - Springer
Processing ambiguous situations is a constant challenge in everyday life and sensory input
from different modalities needs to be integrated to form a coherent mental representation on …