The facilitatory crossmodal effect of auditory stimuli on visual perception

Thesis

The aim of the experiments reported in this thesis was to investigate the multisensory interactions taking place between vision and audition. The focus is on the modulatory role of the temporal coincidence and semantic congruency of pairs of auditory and visual stimuli. With regards to the temporal coincidence factor, whether, and how, the presentation of a simultaneous sound facilitates visual target perception was tested using the equivalent noise paradigm (Chapter 3) and the backward ma...

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Authors: Chen, Y

• Publication date: 2011
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: Vision; Attention; Multisensory Perception; Audition; Object
• Subjects: Experimental psychology