Familiarity of objects affects susceptibility to the sound-induced flash illusion

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 492, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 19-22

  Setti, Annalisa ^a   Chan, Jason S ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Familiarity; Multisensory; Temporal processing; Top down; Visual illusion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FAMILIARITY; FEMALE; FLASH ILLUSION; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILLUSION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SOUND; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TIME PERCEPTION; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79952008164     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2011.01.042     Document Type: Article

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