Assessing the audiotactile Colavita effect in near and rear space.

Journal article

The Colavita effect occurs when participants performing a speeded detection/discrimination task preferentially report the visual component of pairs of audiovisual or visuotactile stimuli. To date, however, researchers have failed to demonstrate an analogous effect for audiotactile stimuli (Hecht and Reiner in Exp Brain Res 193:307-314, 2009). Here, we investigate whether an audiotactile Colavita effect can be demonstrated by manipulating either the physical features of the auditory stimuli pr...

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Authors: Occelli, V; O'Brien, J; Spence, C; Zampini, M

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Experimental brain research
• Volume: 203
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 517-532
• Publication date: 2010-06-01
• DOI: 10.1007/s00221-010-2255-x
• EISSN: 1432-1106
• ISSN: 0014-4819
• Language: English
• Keywords: Physical Stimulation; Psychoacoustics; Female; Analysis of Variance; Discrimination (Psychology); Auditory Perception; Task Performance and Analysis; Signal Detection, Psychological; Young Adult; Acoustic Stimulation; Humans; Adolescent; Reaction Time; Adult; Male; Touch Perception