Audio-visual integration of offset signals(Summaries of Awarded Presentation at the 28th Annual Meeting)

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Accumulated evidence has shown that the perception of a visual object is altered by an auditory stimulus. This study investigated how the "offset" timing of an auditory stimulus would influence the perceived position of a moving visual object. A visual target moved smoothly in a horizontal direction and disappeared at an unpredictable position. Concurrently with the visual target, a pure-tone sound was continuously presented. The onset of the sound was temporally aligned with that of the visual target but the offset timing varied. The results showed that the perceived final position changed systematically with the temporal gap between the visual and sound offsets. This finding suggests that an offset of an auditory signal may signal changes of a visual object.
2010-09-30