I n t e r n a t i o n a l   M u l t i s e n s o r y    R e s e a r c h    F o r u m
2ND ANNUAL  MULTISENSORY RESEARCH CONFERENCE   

 
Poster Titles

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Posters will be on display throughout both days of the conference in the Riverboat Room.
Official Viewing hours are 6.15 to 8.00 pm on both Friday and saturday nights of the conference.
Beverages will be served.
 

1 Is binding required to conjoin visual and tactile features?
Christopher T. Lovelace (1) and Peter G. Grossenbacher (2)
1) Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
2) Department of Psychology, Naropa University, Boulder, CO, USA

Visual - tactile spatial interaction in a focused-attention task

Adele Diederich and Hans Colonius
University of Oldenburg, Institut fuer Kognitionsforschung, Germany


Gating of afferent activity in an Aplysia mechanoafferent neuron
Elizabeth Cropper, C. G. Evans, J. Jing, S. C. Rosen, I. Kupfermann
Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, One Gustave Levy Place, New York, USA

The effect of sound intensity and noise level on audiovisual speech perception

Kaisa Tiippana, Mikko Sams and Riikka Möttönen
Helsinki University of Technology, Laboratory of Computational Engineering, PO Box 9400, Helsinki 02015 HUT, Finland


5 Is there a difference D between the amount of time required for auditory and visual stimuli to reach conscious awareness?

James V. Stone, N.M. Hunkin, J. Porrill, R. Wood, V. Keeler, M. Beanland, M. Port and N.R. Porter
Psychology Dept, Sheffield University, Sheffield S10 2TP, England.


Similar densities of GABA-ergic neurons in visual, auditory and somatosensory 'association' cortices of the cat

H. Ruth Clemo and M.Alex Meredith
Department of Anatomy, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, VA, 23298-0709, USA


Tactile 'Inhibition-of-Return' (IOR) in congenitally blind humans

Brigitte Röder (1), Charles Spence (2) and Frank Rösler (1)
1) Department of Psychology, Philipps-University Marburg, Germany
2) Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, England


Crossmodal Dynamic Capture
Salvador Soto-Faraco (1), Alan Kingstone (1) and Charles Spence (2)
(1) University of British Columbia, Canada
(2) University of Oxford, England

EEG evidence for early audio-visual integration in the human brain

Klaus Linkenkaer-Hansen (1), J. Matias Palva (2), Kai Kaila (2), and Risto J. Ilmoniemi (1).
1) BioMag Laboratory, Medical Engineering Centre, Helsinki University Central Hospital, P.O. Box 442, FIN-00029 HUS, Finland
2) Division of Animal Physiology, Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 17, FIN-00014 Univ. Helsinki, Finland


10 Visual-tactile sensory integration in man: a functional anatomy study using positron emission tomography

Nicholas Stafford, M. Mehta, R. Banati, S. McGowan, J. Aggleton, M. Khwaja, P. Grasby, and C. Bench
Imperial College School of Medicine, MRC Cyclotron Unit, Hammersmith Hospital, DuCane Road, London W12 0NN, England


Crossmodal Integration of Sight and Sound by the Human Brain

Ingrid Olson, C.J. Gatenby and J.C. Gore
Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA


Fusing Vision and Touch Through Sensory Reweighting
Kelvin Oie (1,2), Tim Kiemel (l), and John J. Jeka (2)
1) Department of Biology, University of Maryland
2) Program in Neuroscience & Cognitive Science and Department of Kinesiology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA

Listening to Shapes: The Cross-Modal Equivalence of Vision and Audition in the Presentation of 2-D Shapes.

Eric C. Odgaard
Department of Psychology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 238 Burnett Hall, Lincoln, NE 68588-0308, USA


Crossmodal interference between audition and touch

Donna M. Lloyd (1, 2), Steve Guest (2), Charles Spence (2), Natasha Merat (3), & Francis P. McGlone (3)
1) Centre for the Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, England.
2) Department of Psychology, University of Oxford, England.
3) Unilever Research, Port Sunlight Laboratories & Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Wales, Wales.


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Audio-visual sensory interaction in film perception

Nicola Philips
Unilever Research Port Sunlight Laboratories, Quarry Road East, Bebington, Wirral L63, England


Attending to Pain: Nociceptive Attention, Crossmodal Attention & Visual Dominance

Francis P. McGlone (1), Charles Spence (2), Deborah E. Bentley (3), Paula D. Youell (3, 4), & Anthony K. P. Jones (3)
1) Unilever Research, Port Sunlight Laboratories & Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Wales, Wales.
2) Department of Psychology, University of Oxford, England.
3) University of Manchester Rheumatic Diseases Centre, Hope Hospital, Salford, England.
4) Laser Photonics Department, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Schuster Laboratory, University of Manchester, England


Both auditory and visual attention modulate activity in area MT+
Rebecca Berman and Carol Colby
University of Pittsburgh, Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, 115 Mellon Institute, 4400 5th Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA

Multisensory audio-somatosensory neural response interactions in early cortical processing: a high-density electrical mapping and behavioral study in humans
Micah M. Murray [1,2], Beth A. Higgins [1], Deirdre M. Foxe [1], Kevin H. Knuth [1], Daniel C. Javitt [1,2,3], Charles E. Schroeder [1,2,4], John J. Foxe [1,2,3].
1) Cognitive Neurophysiology Lab, Cognitive Neuroscience and Schizophrenia Program, Nathan Kline Institute, Orangeburg, NY.
2) Departments of Neuroscience, 3) Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, 4) Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY, USA

Multisensory integration in the superior colliculus of the awake behaving primate
Andrew Bell, B.D. Corneil, M.A. Meredith, J. Van Opstal, and D.P. Munoz
Department of Physiology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada

20 Multisensory audio-visual interactions in early cortical processing: A high-density electrical mapping and behavioral study.
Sophie Molholm (1,2), John J. Foxe (2,3), Micah M. Murray (2,4), Beth A. Higgins (2), Charles E. Schroeder (2,4), Daniel C. Javitt (2,3,5), and Walter Ritter (2,4)
1) Department of Psychology, The City College of the City University of New York, New York, N
2) Cognitive Neurophysiology Laboratory, Cognitive Neuroscience and Schizophrenia Program, Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orange County, NY Departments of
(3) Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences &
(4) Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
5) Department of Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY

Auditory and Visual Objects
David Van Valkenburg and Michael Kubovy
Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Gilmer Hall, Charlottesville, Virginia 22903, USA

Intersensory Redundancy Guides Perceptual Learning: Discrimination of Tempo in 3-Month-Olds
Lorraine Bahrick (1), Robert Lickliter (2) and Ross Flom (1)
1) Florida International University
2) Virginia Polytechnic Institute

Tactile 'Capture' of Audition
Anne Caclin, Salvador Soto-Faraco, Alan Kingstone and Charles Spence
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3UD, England
 
Auditory-visual integration in human saccades elicited in a noisy environment
Marc van Wanrooij (1), Brian Corneil (2), Doug Munoz (2), John van Opstal (1)
1) Department of Medical Physics and Biophysics, University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
2) Department of Physiology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
 
25 Shifts of Intermodal Attention Induced by Endogenous Auditory Cues
Kaiming G. Fu, John J. Foxe, Micah M. Murray, Beth A. Higgins, D.C. Javitt, C.E. Schroeder
1) Cognitive Neurophysiology Laboratory, Cognitive Neuroscience and Schizophrenia Program, Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orange County, NY Departments ofð
(2) Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences &ð
(3) Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
4) Department of Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY
 
Somato-auditory convergence in auditory association cortex
Taylor A. Johnston, K.G. Fu, T. McGinnis, J. Smiley, John J. Foxe, D.C. Javitt, C.E. Schroeder
1) Cognitive Neurophysiology Laboratory, Cognitive Neuroscience and Schizophrenia Program, Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orange County, NY Departments ofð
(2) Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences &
(3) Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
(4) Department of Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY

The Ventriloquist illusion in neglect patients
Paul Bertelson [1,4], Francesco Pavani [2,3], Elisabetta Ladavas [3], Jean Vroomen [4] and B»atrice de Gelder [1,4]
1] Universit» libre de Bruxelles (Belgium) 2] Ospedale INRCA "I Fraticini", Firenze (Italy) 3] Universit" di Bologna (Italy) 4] Tilburg University (The Netherlands)

 

 


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