Narrowing of the Audiovisual Temporal Binding Window Due To Perceptual Training Is Specific to High Visual Intensity Stimuli.

Horsfall, Ryan P, Wuerger, Sophie M ORCID: 0000-0003-0080-5813 and Meyer, Georg F (2021) Narrowing of the Audiovisual Temporal Binding Window Due To Perceptual Training Is Specific to High Visual Intensity Stimuli. i-Perception, 12 (1). p. 2041669520978670.

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Abstract

The temporal binding window (TBW), which reflects the range of temporal offsets in which audiovisual stimuli are combined to form a singular percept, can be reduced through training. Our research aimed to investigate whether training-induced reductions in TBW size transfer across stimulus intensities. A total of 32 observers performed simultaneity judgements at two visual intensities with a fixed auditory intensity, before and after receiving audiovisual TBW training at just one of these two intensities. We show that training individuals with a high visual intensity reduces the size of the TBW for <i>bright</i> stimuli, but this improvement did not transfer to dim stimuli. The reduction in TBW can be explained by shifts in decision criteria. Those trained with the dim visual stimuli, however, showed no reduction in TBW. Our main finding is that perceptual improvements following training are specific for high-intensity stimuli, potentially highlighting limitations of proposed TBW training procedures.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	temporal binding window, multisensory, audiovisual, perceptual learning
Divisions:	Faculty of Health and Life Sciences Faculty of Health and Life Sciences > Institute of Population Health
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	17 Mar 2021 10:14
Last Modified:	18 Jan 2023 22:56
DOI:	10.1177/2041669520978670
Open Access URL:	https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/204166952...
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3117530