Sound enhances touch perception

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 195, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 135-143

  Ro, Tony ^a   Hsu, Johanan ^b   Yasar, Nafi E ^b,c   Caitlin Elmore, L ^c   Beauchamp, Michael S ^c  

^a CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Audition; Human; Multisensory; Perception; Psychophysics; Touch

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEMALE; HANCOCK VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; SOUND; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TOUCH;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; REACTION TIME; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SOUND; TOUCH; TOUCH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67349167371     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-009-1759-8     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. MS Beauchamp T Ro 2008 Neural substrates of sound-touch synesthesia after a thalamic lesion J Neurosci 28 13696 13702
2. Bertelson P (1999) Ventriloquism: a case of cross modal perceptual grouping. In: Aschersleben G, Bachmann E, Müsseler J (eds) Cognitive contributions to the perception of spatial and temporal events. North-Holland, Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam, pp 347-363
3. P Bertelson G Aschersleben 1998 Automatic visual bias of perceived auditory location Psychon Bull Rev 5 482 489 (Pubitemid 128457707)
4. JK Bizley FR Nodal VM Bajo I Nelken AJ King 2007 Physiological and anatomical evidence for multisensory interactions in auditory cortex Cereb Cortex 17 2172 2189 (Pubitemid 47283692)
5. S Clavagnier A Falchier H Kennedy 2004 Long-distance feedback projections to area V1: implications for multisensory integration, spatial awareness, and visual consciousness Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 4 117 126 (Pubitemid 39167154)
6. J Driver T Noesselt 2008 Multisensory interplay reveals crossmodal influences on 'sensory-specific' brain regions, neural responses, and judgments Neuron 57 11 23
7. J Driver C Spence 1998 Attention and the crossmodal construction of space Trends Cogn Sci 2 254 262 (Pubitemid 28394243)
8. J Driver C Spence 1998 Crossmodal attention Curr Opin Neurobiol 8 245 253 (Pubitemid 28247807)
9. MO Ernst MS Banks HH Bulthoff 2000 Touch can change visual slant perception Nat Neurosci 3 69 73 (Pubitemid 30126350)
10. A Falchier S Clavagnier P Barone H Kennedy 2002 Anatomical evidence of multimodal integration in primate striate cortex J Neurosci 22 5749 5759 (Pubitemid 35386498)
11. A Farne E Ladavas 2002 Auditory peripersonal space in humans J Cogn Neurosci 14 1030 1043
12. JJ Foxe GR Wylie A Martinez CE Schroeder DC Javitt D Guilfoyle W Ritter MM Murray 2002 Auditory-somatosensory multisensory processing in auditory association cortex: an fMRI study J Neurophysiol 88 540 543 (Pubitemid 34755375)
13. GA Gescheider WG Barton MR Bruce JH Goldberg MJ Greenspan 1969 Effects of simultaneous auditory stimulation on the detection of tactile stimuli J Exp Psychol 81 120 125
14. AA Ghazanfar CE Schroeder 2006 Is neocortex essentially multisensory? Trends Cogn Sci 10 278 285 (Pubitemid 43870163)
15. H Gillmeister M Eimer 2007 Tactile enhancement of auditory detection and perceived loudness Brain Res 1160 58 68 (Pubitemid 47058033)
16. S Guest C Catmur D Lloyd C Spence 2002 Audiotactile interactions in roughness perception Exp Brain Res 146 161 171
17. DL Halpern R Blake J Hillenbrand 1986 Psychoacoustics of a chilling sound Percept Psychophys 39 77 80
18. K Hotting B Roder 2004 Hearing cheats touch, but less in congenitally blind than in sighted individuals Psychol Sci 15 60 64 (Pubitemid 38284928)
19. Y Iguchi Y Hoshi M Nemoto M Taira I Hashimoto 2007 Co-activation of the secondary somatosensory and auditory cortices facilitates frequency discrimination of vibrotactile stimuli Neuroscience 148 461 472 (Pubitemid 47362503)
20. RM Johnson PC Burton T Ro 2006 Visually induced feelings of touch Brain Res 1073-1074 398 406
21. V Jousmaki R Hari 1998 Parchment-skin illusion: sound-biased touch Curr Biol 8 R190
22. S Kennett M Taylor-Clarke P Haggard 2001 Noninformative vision improves the spatial resolution of touch in humans Curr Biol 11 1188 1191 (Pubitemid 32722572)
23. E Macaluso J Driver 2005 Multisensory spatial interactions: a window onto functional integration in the human brain Trends Neurosci 28 264 271 (Pubitemid 41556911)
24. J Navarra S Soto-Faraco C Spence 2007 Adaptation to audiotactile asynchrony Neurosci Lett 413 72 76 (Pubitemid 46149187)
25. V Occelli C Spence M Zampini 2008 The effect of sound intensity on the audiotactile crossmodal dynamic capture effect Exp Brain Res 193 3 409 419
26. M Ozcan U Baumgartner G Vucurevic P Stoeter RD Treede 2005 Spatial resolution of fMRI in the human parasylvian cortex: comparison of somatosensory and auditory activation Neuroimage 25 877 887 (Pubitemid 40461726)
27. F Pavani C Spence J Driver 2000 Visual capture of touch: out-of-the-body experiences with rubber gloves Psychol Sci 11 353 359
28. MI Posner 1980 Orienting of attention Q J Exp Psychol 32 3 25
29. GH Recanzone 1998 Rapidly induced auditory plasticity: the ventriloquism aftereffect Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 95 869 875 (Pubitemid 28124880)
30. T Ro R Wallace J Hagedorn A Farnè E Pienkos 2004 Visual enhancing of tactile perception in posterior parietal cortex J Cogn Neurosci 16 24 30 (Pubitemid 38117583)
31. T Ro A Farne RM Johnson V Wedeen Z Chu ZJ Wang JV Hunter MS Beauchamp 2007 Feeling sounds after a thalamic lesion Ann Neurol 62 433 441 (Pubitemid 350308767)
32. I Rock J Victor 1964 Vision and touch: an experimentally created conflict between the two senses Science 143 594 596
33. I Rock A Mack L Adams AL Hill 1965 Adaptation to contradictory information from vision and touch Psychon Sci 3 435 436
34. KS Rockland H Ojima 2003 Multisensory convergence in calcarine visual areas in macaque monkey Int J Psychophysiol 50 19 26 (Pubitemid 37162868)
35. CE Schroeder J Foxe 2005 Multisensory contributions to low-level, 'unisensory' processing Curr Opin Neurobiol 15 454 458 (Pubitemid 41074766)
36. CE Schroeder RW Lindsley C Specht A Marcovici JF Smiley DC Javitt 2001 Somatosensory input to auditory association cortex in the macaque monkey J Neurophysiol 85 1322 1327 (Pubitemid 32209618)
37. M Schurmann G Caetano Y Hlushchuk V Jousmaki R Hari 2006 Touch activates human auditory cortex Neuroimage 30 1325 1331 (Pubitemid 43980501)
38. A Serino M Bassolino A Farne E Ladavas 2007 Extended multisensory space in blind cane users Psychol Sci 18 642 648
39. Sherrick CE (1976) The antagonisms of hearing and touch. In: Hirsh SK, Eldredge DH, Hirsh IJ, Silverman SR (eds) Hearing and Davis: essays honoring Hallowell Davis. Washington University Press, St. Louis, MO, pp 149-158
40. C Spence J Driver 1997 Audiovisual links in exogenous covert spatial orienting Percept Psychophys 59 1 22 (Pubitemid 127456363)
41. C Spence MER Nicholls N Gillespie J Driver 1998 Cross-modal links in exogenous covert spatial orienting between touch, audition, and vision Percept Psychophys 60 544 557 (Pubitemid 128455778)
42. Stein B, Meredith M (1993) The merging of the senses. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA
43. SP Tipper D Lloyd B Shorland C Dancer LA Howard F McGlone 1998 Vision influences tactile perception without proprioceptive orienting Neuroreport: Int J Rapid Commun Res Neurosci 9 1741 1744 (Pubitemid 28289177)
44. SP Tipper N Phillips C Dancer D Lloyd LA Howard F McGlone 2001 Vision influences tactile perception at body sites that cannot be viewed directly Exp Brain Res 139 160 167 (Pubitemid 32661524)
45. J Vroomen B de Gelder 2000 Sound enhances visual perception: cross-modal effects of auditory organization on vision J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 26 1583 1590
46. M Zampini D Torresan C Spence MM Murray 2007 Auditory-somatosensory multisensory interactions in front and rear space Neuropsychologia 45 1869 1877 (Pubitemid 46386106)