Frank E. Pollick

Overlapping but divergent neural correlates underpinning audiovisual synchrony and temporal order judgments

Multisensory processing is a core perceptual capability, and the need to understand its neural bases provides a fundamental problem in the study of brain function. Both synchrony …

The role of kinematics in cortical regions for continuous human motion perception

It has been proposed that we make sense of the movements of others by observing fluctuations in the kinematic properties of their actions. At the neural level, activity in the …

Uni- and multisensory brain areas are synchronised across spectators when watching unedited dance recordings

The superior temporal sulcus (STS) and gyrus (STG) are commonly identified to be functionally relevant for multisensory integration of audiovisual (AV) stimuli. However, most …

A psychophysical investigation of differences between synchrony and temporal order judgments

Synchrony judgments involve deciding whether cues to an event are in synch or out of synch, while temporal order judgments involve deciding which of the cues came first. When the …

Action expertise reduces brain activity for audiovisual matching actions: An fMRI study with expert drummers

When we observe someone perform a familiar action, we can usually predict what kind of sound that action will produce. Musical actions are over-experienced by musicians and not by …