The ventriloquist effect results from near-optimal bimodal integration.

By David Alais, David C. Burr. 2004

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Assessing the Role of the ‘Unity Assumption’ on Multisensory Integration: A Review (2017, methodology): “…studies that have wanted to Frontiers in Psychology | www.frontiersin.org 3 March 2017 | Volume 8 | Article 445 test optimal statistical integration based on Bayesian models (e.g., Alais and Burr, 2004, to ask their participants to “think the display as a ball thudding onto the screen,” p. 260).”
Multisensory Interplay Reveals Crossmodal Influences on ‘Sensory-Specific’ Brain Regions, Neural Responses, and Judgments (2008, neutral): “Such joint estimates may be ''optimal'' in a formal sense, weighting each modality's contribution by its reliability/variability for the property concerned (e.g., Alais and Burr, 2004; Ernst and Bulthoff, 2004; Helbig and Ernst, 2007).”
Probability Matching as a Computational Strategy Used in Perception (2010, background): “This is a commonly used loss function in normative models of human behavior [3,4,7,15,16].”
A Normalization Model of Multisensory Integration (2011, neutral): “Integrating inputs from multiple sensory systems (for example, vision, audition and somatosensation) can increase perceptual sensitivity, enabling better detection or discrimination of events in the environmen”
Probabilistic brains: knowns and unknowns (2013, result): “What Ernst and Banks 11 (and several prior studies 12,24,25 ) found is that human behavior is consistent with equations (2) and (3), providing evidence that humans properly take into account uncertainty on a trial-by-trial basis, an integral part of probabilistic reasoning.”
Eating with our ears: assessing the importance of the sounds of consumption on our perception and enjoyment of multisensory flavour experiences (2015, background): “This is an audiotactile version of the phenomenon that we all experience when our brain glues the voice we hear onto the lips we see on the cinema screen despite the fact that the sounds actually originate from elsewhere in the auditorium [107].”
Multisensory integration in macaque visual cortex depends on cue reliability (2008, methodology): “Modulation Depth and Discrimination Threshold A consistent observation in human psychophysical experiments is that subjects make more precise judgments under bimodal as compared to unimodal conditions (Alais and Burr, 2004; Ernst and Banks, 2002).”
Bayesian just-so stories in psychology and neuroscience. (2012, background): “Various behavioral studies have demonstrated that human performance in such conditions is extremely similar to a model that optimally combines information from different modalities (e.g., Alais & Burr, 2004; Ernst & Banks, 2002).”
‘When Birds of a Feather Flock Together’: Synesthetic Correspondences Modulate Audiovisual Integration in Non-Synesthetes (2009, background): “When spatiotemporally conflicting stimuli from different modalities are integrated, small conflicts are often compensated for, giving rise to the ventriloquist effect, whereby the conflicting stimuli are perceptually ‘‘pulled’’ together toward a single spatiotemporal onset [14–17].”
The ventriloquist in periphery: impact of eccentricity-related reliability on audio-visual localization. (2013, background): “Some experiments demonstrated that when the reliability of visual input is reduced, for example when visual information is blurred (Alais & Burr, 2004), presented at a low perceptual threshold (Bolognini, Leo, Passamonti, Stein, & Làdavas, 2007), near the onset of a visual saccade (Binda, Bruno,…”
Synesthetic congruency modulates the temporal ventriloquism effect. (2008, background): “, [1,4]; see also [8]).”
Augmented visual, auditory, haptic, and multimodal feedback in motor learning: A review (2012, background): “…integration is believed to follow a general principle; thus, the nervous system weights the information available in each modality in an optimal way (reducing final estimation variance), whereas attention can influence these weights (Alais & Burr, 2004; Ernst & Banks, 2002; van Beers et al., 1999).”
The Brain’s Tendency to Bind Audiovisual Signals Is Stable but Not General (2016, positive): “The fact that differences in unisensory processing influence integration is already well established (Alais & Burr, 2004; Ernst & Banks, 2002; Rohe & Noppeney, 2015b); on the other hand, the binding tendency, which provides a true One possible source of between-subjects variability in cross-modal…”