eprintid: 1456631 rev_number: 35 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/01/45/66/31 datestamp: 2014-11-24 15:01:44 lastmod: 2021-10-21 23:15:38 status_changed: 2014-11-24 15:01:44 type: article metadata_visibility: show item_issues_count: 0 creators_name: Desantis, A creators_name: Mamassian, P creators_name: Lisi, M creators_name: Waszak, F title: The prediction of visual stimuli influences auditory loudness discrimination ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B02 divisions: C07 note: © The Author(s) 2014. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com abstract: The brain combines information from different senses to improve performance on perceptual tasks. For instance, auditory processing is enhanced by the mere fact that a visual input is processed simultaneously. However, the sensory processing of one modality is itself subject to diverse influences. Namely, perceptual processing depends on the degree to which a stimulus is predicted. The present study investigated the extent to which the influence of one processing pathway on another pathway depends on whether or not the stimulation in this pathway is predicted. We used an action–effect paradigm to vary the match between incoming and predicted visual stimulation. Participants triggered a bimodal stimulus composed of a Gabor and a tone. The Gabor was either congruent or incongruent compared to an action–effect association that participants learned in an acquisition phase.We tested the influence of action–effect congruency on the loudness perception of the tone. We observed that an incongruent–task-irrelevant Gabor stimulus increases participant’s sensitivity to loudness discrimination. An identical result was obtained for a second condition in which the visual stimulus was predicted by a cue instead of an action. Our results suggest that prediction error is a driving factor of the crossmodal interplay between vision and audition date: 2014-10 official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00221-014-4001-2 vfaculties: VFBRS oa_status: green full_text_type: pub language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_source: crossref elements_id: 994718 doi: 10.1007/s00221-014-4001-2 lyricists_name: Desantis, Andrea lyricists_id: ADESA69 full_text_status: public publication: Experimental Brain Research volume: 232 number: 10 pagerange: 3317 - 3324 issn: 0014-4819 citation: Desantis, A; Mamassian, P; Lisi, M; Waszak, F; (2014) The prediction of visual stimuli influences auditory loudness discrimination. Experimental Brain Research , 232 (10) 3317 - 3324. 10.1007/s00221-014-4001-2 <https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-014-4001-2>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1456631/1/art%253A10.1007%252Fs00221-014-4001-2.pdf