Impact of the spatial congruence of redundant targets on within-modal and cross-modal integration

• Published in: Experimental brain research Vol. 224; no. 2; pp. 275 - 285
• Main Authors: Girard, S., Pelland, M., Lepore, F., Collignon, O.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer-Verlag 01.01.2013; Springer
• Subjects: Adult; Biological and medical sciences; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Biomedicine; Development and progression; Female; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Humans; Male; Models, Biological; Motor neurons; Neurology; Neurosciences; Photic Stimulation; Physical Stimulation; Physiological aspects; Psychomotor Performance - physiology; Psychophysics; Reaction Time - physiology; Research Article; Risk factors; Sensory integration disorder; Space perception; Space Perception - physiology; Touch - physiology; Vertebrates: nervous system and sense organs; Visual Perception - physiology; Young Adult; Canada; Redundancy gain; Multisensory integration; Simple reaction time; Visual; Tactile

Although the topic of sensory integration has raised increasing interest, the differing behavioral outcome of combining unisensory versus multisensory inputs has surprisingly only been scarcely investigated. In the present experiment, observers were required to respond as fast as possible to (1) lat...