Clarification of mechanism of capturing events presented peripheral area based on auditory, visual, and somatic sensations

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24683026
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (A)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Experimental psychology
• Research Institution: Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
• Principal Investigator: Miyauchi Ryota 北陸先端科学技術大学院大学, 情報科学研究科, 助教 (30455852)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 視聴覚統合 / 空間知覚 / 聴覚的注意 / 身体運動

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Human can perceive visual and auditory information originated with various events surrounding them, and recognize the events based on the percept. In the present study, to examine multimodal (auditory, visual, and somatosensory) interaction and cognitive process of the events, psychological experiments were conducted. The results showed that perceptual directions of auditory and visual stimuli were different, whereas these stimuli were presented from the same direction. The discrepancy between auditory and visual perceptual directions cannot be explained by the differences of modality specific features of each audition and vision. It is considered to be caused by the interaction between audition, vision, and somatic sensation.

Free Research Field

知覚心理