A Cross-Modal Aftereffect: Auditory Displacement following Adaptation to Visual Motion

Perceptual and Motor SkillsPublished 1 February 1996

Walter H. Ehrenstein, Anthony Reinhardt-Rutland

DOI10.2466/pms.1996.82.1.23

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It has been shown earlier that the perceived location of static sound-sources can be displaced during visual motion and following auditory motion, and this visual-auditory aftereffect, consistent with sensorineural data, challenges a general, if implicit, belief that aftere effects do not cross modalities.

Abstract

It has been shown earlier that the perceived location of static sound-sources can be displaced (a) during visual motion and (b) following auditory motion. Here we combine these phenomena. The subject adapted to the horizontal visual motion of a surrounding drum, then (with the lights off) localized static sound-sources by setting the direction of a pointer. Adapting motion was clockwise or counterclockwise: the difference between each subject's settings following the opposite directions of adaptation showed small but consistent auditory displacements opposite to the adapting directions. This visual-auditory aftereffect, which is consistent with sensorineural data, challenges a general, if implicit, belief that aftereffects do not cross modalities.

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