The crossmodal facilitation of visual object representations by sound: evidence from the backward masking paradigm.

Journal article

We report a series of experiments designed to demonstrate that the presentation of a sound can facilitate the identification of a concomitantly presented visual target letter in the backward masking paradigm. Two visual letters, serving as the target and its mask, were presented successively at various interstimulus intervals (ISIs). The results demonstrate that the crossmodal facilitation of participants' visual identification performance elicited by the presentation of a simultaneous sound ...

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Authors: Chen, Y; Spence, C

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance
• Volume: 37
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 1784-1802
• Publication date: 2011-12-01
• DOI: 10.1037/a0025638
• EISSN: 1939-1277
• ISSN: 0096-1523
• Language: English
• Keywords: Adult; Photic Stimulation; Perceptual Masking; Male; Auditory Perception; Young Adult; Humans; Female; Time Factors; Form Perception; Acoustic Stimulation