Neural correlates of audio-visual object recognition: Effects of implicit spatial congruency

• Published in: Human brain mapping Vol. 33; no. 4; pp. 797 - 811
• Main Authors: Plank, Tina, Rosengarth, Katharina, Song, Wookeun, Ellermeier, Wolfgang, Greenlee, Mark W.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company 01.04.2012; Wiley-Liss; John Wiley & Sons, Inc
• Subjects: Acoustic Stimulation; Adult; Auditory Perception - physiology; Biological and medical sciences; Brain - physiology; Brain Mapping; Female; fMRI; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Humans; Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted; Investigative techniques, diagnostic techniques (general aspects); Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Medical sciences; multisensory perception; Nervous system; object recognition; Perception; Photic Stimulation; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Radiodiagnosis. Nmr imagery. Nmr spectrometry; spatial congruency; Vision; Visual Perception - physiology; Young Adult; object recognition; fMRI; Nervous system diseases; Radiodiagnosis; Perception; Multisensory integration; Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging; spatial congruency; Recognition; multisensory perception

Multisensory integration assists us to identify objects by providing multiple cues with respect to object category and spatial location. We used a semantic audiovisual object matching task to determine the effect of spatial congruency on response behavior and fMRI brain activation. Fifteen subjects...