Modeling multisensory integration across different experimental paradigms
Last modified: 2011-08-21
Abstract
The time-window-of-integration (TWIN) model (Diederich & Colonius, 2008) describes and predicts multisensory integration effects in (saccadic) reaction time as a function of the spatial, temporal, and intensity conditions of the stimulus set. Here we show that using identical stimulus conditions but different instructions about target/nontarget modality (redundant target vs. focused attention paradigm) TWIN makes different predictions that are supported empirically. Thus, TWIN is able to account for both bottom-up and tow-down effects.
References
Diederich, A., & Colonius, H. (2008). Crossmodal Interaction in Saccadic Reaction Time: Separating Multisensory from Warning Effects in the Time Window of Integration Model. Experimental Brain Research, 186, 1-22.