Multisensory integration of redundant trisensory stimulation

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• 作者：Carl Erick Hagmann ; Natalie Russo
• 关键词：Multisensory ; Focused attention ; Auditory ; Visual ; Somatosensory
• 刊名：Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：November 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：78
• 期：8
• 页码：2558-2568
• 全文大小：991 KB
• 刊物主题：Cognitive Psychology;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1943-393X
• 卷排序：78

文摘

Integration of sensory information across modalities can confer behavioral advantages by decreasing perceptual ambiguity, increasing reaction time, and increasing detection accuracy relative to unisensory stimuli. We asked how combinations of auditory, visual, and somatosensory events alter response time. Participants detected stimulation on one side of space (right or left) while ignoring stimulation on the other side of space. There were seven types of suprathreshold stimuli: auditory (tones from speakers), visual (sinusoidal contrast gratings), somatosensory (fingertip vibrations), audio-visual, somato-visual, audio-somatosensory, and audio-somato-visual. Response enhancement and race model analysis confirmed that bisensory and trisensory trials enhanced response time relative to unisensory trials. Exploratory analysis of individual differences in intersensory facilitation revealed that participants fit into one of two groups: those who benefitted from trisensory information and those who did not.