The role of attention in audio-visual integration

Authors

  • Michael Schutz School of the Arts, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
  • Laura Silverman University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, United States

Keywords:

Audio-visual integration, Children with autisms, Optimal integration, Sensory integration

Abstract

The importance of sensory integration in everyday experience becomes clear when considering special populations with sensory integration dysfunction. This differs from previous approaches, which asked participants to rate the duration of the note and the level of agreement between the gesture and the note. This modification is an important precursor to testing ASD individuals who often have trouble shifting cognitive set. This new procedure differs from previous work by using a task that explicitly calls attention to the gesture's length when judging tone duration. This serves as an important precursor to our subsequent investigations of audio-visual integration amongst children with autism. It also explores whether the illusion is robust to manipulations of attention, which will provide further insight into an illusion at odds with the otherwise widely-accepted theory of optimal integration.

Downloads

Published

2011-09-01

How to Cite

1.
Schutz M, Silverman L. The role of attention in audio-visual integration. Canadian Acoustics [Internet]. 2011 Sep. 1 [cited 2023 May 28];39(3):108-9. Available from: https://jcaa.caa-aca.ca/index.php/jcaa/article/view/2434

Issue

Vol. 39 No. 3 (2011)

Section

Proceedings of the Acoustics Week in Canada

License

Copyright on articles is held by the author(s). The corresponding author has the right to grant on behalf of all authors and does grant on behalf of all authors, a worldwide exclusive licence (or non-exclusive license for government employees) to the Publishers and its licensees in perpetuity, in all forms, formats and media (whether known now or created in the future)
i)    to publish, reproduce, distribute, display and store the Contribution;
ii)    to translate the Contribution into other languages, create adaptations, reprints, include within collections and create summaries, extracts and/or, abstracts of the Contribution;
iii)    to exploit all subsidiary rights in the Contribution,
iv)    to provide the inclusion of electronic links from the Contribution to third party material where-ever it may be located;
v)    to licence any third party to do any or all of the above.