No direction-specific bimodal facilitation for audiovisual motion detection

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 185-194

  Alais, David ^a,b   Burr, David ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Audiovisual; Auditory psychophysics; Bimodal; Crossmodal interaction; Motion detection; Sensory systems; Visual (and auditory) psychophysics and behavior; Visual psychophysics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PERIPHERAL VISION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RANDOMIZATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; HUMANS; MOTION PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SOUND LOCALIZATION;

EID: 1542381011     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2003.11.011     Document Type: Article

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