Evaluating the influence of the 'unity assumption' on the temporal perception of realistic audiovisual stimuli.

By Argiro Vatakis, Charles Spence. 2008

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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): “…case being a person playing a note on a piano vs. on a guitar), object actions (someone smashing a block of ice or FIGURE 6 | An example of stimuli and results of Vatakis and colleagues’ experiments of the unity effect on temporal perception (Vatakis and Spence, 2007, 2008; Vatakis et al., 2008).”
When knowing can replace seeing in audiovisual integration of actions. (2009, unknown): “Even more, though recently Vatakis and Spence (2008) showed that for music stimuli the ‘unity assumption’ (Vatakis & Spence, 2007) does not appear to influence the binding of auditory and visual signals, we wonder whether in our case the ‘unity assumption’ could explain the decreased sensitivity of…”
Facilitation of multisensory integration by the "unity effect" reveals that speech is special. (2008, methodology): “…or musical events that could either be matched (e.g., the sight of a note being played on a piano together with the corresponding sound) or mismatched (e.g., the sight of a note being played on a piano together with the sound of the same note being played on a guitar; Vatakis & Spence, 2008).”
Intersensory binding across space and time: A tutorial review (2013, background): “…the relative temporal order or the relative spatial location of the individual components, because they are fused (e.g., Arrighi, Alais & Burr, 2006; Kohlrausch & van de Par, 2005; Levitin, MacLean, Matthews, Chu & Jensen, 2000; Vatakis, Ghazanfar & Spence, 2008; Vatakis & Spence, 2007, 2008).”
‘When Birds of a Feather Flock Together’: Synesthetic Correspondences Modulate Audiovisual Integration in Non-Synesthetes (2009, background): “Interestingly, subsequent studies have shown that the phenomenon disappears when participants are presented with realistic non-speech stimuli, thus suggesting that the ‘‘unity effect’’ might be specific to speech [24,26].”
No effect of synesthetic congruency on temporal ventriloquism (2010, background): “In yet another study, Vatakis and Spence (2008) also found no congruency effect for audiovisual music stimuli and object action videos that either matched (e.g., the sight of a note’s being played on a piano together with the corresponding sound, or the video of a bouncing ball with a corresponding…”
Audiovisual integration of emotional signals from music improvisation does not depend on temporal correspondence. (2010, background): “…in Experiment 2 the irrelevant auditory information was found to influence the visual emotional content only when it was concordant semantically (Vatakis and Spence, 2007, 2008; Schutz and Kubovy, 2008) despite the temporal mismatch between the signals (McGurk and MacDonald, 1976; Arrighi et…”
Correlation versus causation in multisensory perception (2010, unknown): “Nevertheless, Vatakis and Spence (2007, 2008) found some evidence against such a claim: They showed to participants various audiovisual events (e.g., spoken syllables, piano tones, ice being crushed) and varied their audiovisual asynchrony.”
Perception of intersensory synchrony in audiovisual speech: not that special. (2011, background): “Vatakis and Spence (2007, 2008a) reported several experiments in which they demonstrated that the ‘‘unity assumption” modulates performance in an audiovisual TOJ task.”