synchrony

Combining the senses: the role of experience- and task-dependent mechanisms in the development of audiovisual simultaneity perception

The brain's ability to integrate information from the different senses is essential for decreasing sensory uncertainty and ultimately limiting errors. Temporal correspondence is one of the key processes that determines whether information from …

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 cues come from different sensory modalities these judgments can be used …

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 non-musicians, and thus offer a unique way to examine how action …