Multisensory integration as a window into orderly and disrupted cognition and communication

MT Wallace, TG Woynaroski… - Annual review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
During our everyday lives, we are confronted with a vast amount of information from several
sensory modalities. This multisensory information needs to be appropriately integrated for us …

Multisensory integration in cochlear implant recipients

RA Stevenson, SW Sheffield, IM Butera… - Ear and …, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Speech perception is inherently a multisensory process involving integration of auditory and
visual cues. Multisensory integration in cochlear implant (CI) recipients is a unique …

Stimulus intensity modulates multisensory temporal processing

JK Fister, RA Stevenson, AR Nidiffer, ZP Barnett… - Neuropsychologia, 2016 - Elsevier
One of the more challenging feats that multisensory systems must perform is to determine
which sensory signals originate from the same external event, and thus should be integrated …

Operating in a multisensory context: Assessing the interplay between multisensory reaction time facilitation and inter-sensory task-switching effects

LH Shaw, EG Freedman, MJ Crosse, E Nicholas… - Neuroscience, 2020 - Elsevier
Individuals respond faster to presentations of bisensory stimuli (eg audio-visual targets) than
to presentations of either unisensory constituent in isolation (ie to the auditory-alone or …

Aberrant causal inference and presence of a compensatory mechanism in autism spectrum disorder

JP Noel, S Shivkumar, K Dokka, RM Haefner… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterized by a panoply of social, communicative, and
sensory anomalies. As such, a central goal of computational psychiatry is to ascribe the …

Shifts in audiovisual processing in healthy aging

SH Baum, RA Stevenson - Current Behavioral Neuroscience Reports, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review The integration of information across sensory modalities into
unified percepts is a fundamental sensory process upon which a multitude of cognitive …

Resolution of impaired multisensory processing in autism and the cost of switching sensory modality

MJ Crosse, JJ Foxe, K Tarrit, EG Freedman… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
Children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) exhibit alterations in multisensory
processing, which may contribute to the prevalence of social and communicative deficits in …

Multisensory perception and the coding of space

N van der Stoep, T Nijboer, A Postma… - … of space: Spatial …, 2016 - books.google.com
Vision, audition, and touch all code the space around us, or rather the things that are located
in the space around us, in a different way. Yet, together our senses form a coherent spatial …

The variability of multisensory processes of natural stimuli in human and non-human primates in a detection task

C Juan, C Cappe, B Alric, B Roby, S Gilardeau… - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Background Behavioral studies in both human and animals generally converge to the
dogma that multisensory integration improves reaction times (RTs) in comparison to …

Enhanced multisensory gain in older adults may be a by-product of inverse effectiveness: Evidence from a speeded response-time task.

LC Schneeberger, A Lynn, V Scarcelli, A Seif… - Psychology and …, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Older adults experience a greater benefit from multisensory integration than their younger
counterparts, but it is unclear why. One hypothesis is that age-related sensory decline …