Spatial ventriloquism refers to the phenomenon that a visual stimulus such as a flash can
attract the perceived location of a spatially discordant but temporally synchronous sound. An …

The last couple of years have seen a rapid growth of interest (especially amongst cognitive
psychologists, cognitive neuroscientists, and developmental researchers) in the study of …

Metacognition–the ability to monitor one's own decisions and representations, their accuracy
and uncertainty–is considered a hallmark of intelligent behavior. Little is known about …

Adult listeners systematically associate certain speech sounds with round or spiky shapes, a
sound-symbolic phenomenon known as the “bouba-kiki effect.” In this study, we investigate …

Multisensory interactions are the norm in perception, and an abundance of research on the
interaction and integration of the senses has demonstrated the importance of combining …

This article investigates the cross-modal correspondences between musical timbre and
shapes. Previously, such features as pitch, loudness, light intensity, visual size, and color …

There has been a huge growth of interest in the topic of multisensory perception over the
past half century. The majority of this research has focused on the spatial senses of vision …

The renewed interest that has emerged around the topic of crossmodal correspondences in
recent years has demonstrated that crossmodal matchings and map**s exist between the …

Both robotic and virtual agents could one day be equipped with social abilities necessary for
effective and natural interaction with human beings. Although virtual agents are relatively …

Visual speech facilitates auditory speech perception, but the visual cues responsible for
these benefits and the information they provide remain unclear. Low-level models …