Multi-Modal Perception Flashcards
Sensory Modalities
A type of sense; for example, vision or audition
Unimodal
Of or pertaining to a single sensory modality
Multimodal
Of or pertaining to multiple sensory modalities.
Multimodal perception
The effects that concurrent stimulation in more than one sensory modality has on the perception of events and objects in the world.
What does integrated mean, in reference to the various sensory modalities
process by which the perceptual system combines info coming from more than one modality.
Superadditive effect of multisensory integration
a finding that “responses to multimodal stimuli, are typically greater than the sum of the independent responses of each unimodal component if it were presented on its own
What is the superadditive effect of multisensory intergration also known as
multisensory enhancement
What are multisensory convergence zones
Regions in the brain that receive input from multiple unimodal areas processing different sensory modalities.
Receptive feild
The portion of the world to which a neuron will respond if an appropriate stimulus is present there.
Crossmodal receptive fields
A receptive field that can be stimulated by a stimulus from more than one sensory modality.
McGurk effect
An effect in which conflicting visual and auditory components of a speech stimulus result in an illusory percept.
Rubber hand illusion
The false perception of a fake hand as belonging to a perceiver, due to multimodal sensory information
Double Flash illusion
The false perception of two visual flashes when a single flash is accompanied by two auditory beeps.
How do you perceive two circles differently if an auditory sound is made when they get close
the tendency to perceive two circles as bouncing off each other if the moment of their contact is accompanied by an auditory stimulus.
