Looming sounds enhance orientation sensitivity for visual stimuli on the same side as such sounds

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 213, Issue 2-3, 2011, Pages 193-201

  Leo, Fabrizio ^a,b   Romei, Vincenzo ^a,c   Freeman, Elliot ^d   Ladavas, Elisabetta ^e,f   Driver, Jon ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^c WELLCOME TRUST CENTRE FOR NEUROIMAGING   (United Kingdom)

^d CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^f Polo Scientifico Didattico di Cesena   (Italy)

Author keywords

Crossmodal; Looming sounds; Multisensory; Psychophysics; Sensitivity; Visual orientation discrimination

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFECT SIZE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOOMING SOUND; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SENSORY SYSTEM EXAMINATION; SOUND; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND INTENSITY; SOUND TRANSMISSION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; WHITE NOISE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SOUND; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053898761     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-011-2742-8     Document Type: Article

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