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Looking and listening while moving

Tom Freeman

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Cardiff University

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Wednesday, November 17, 2021

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Wednesday, November 17, 2021

1:00 PM Europe/London

Host: CompCogSci Darmstadt

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In this talk I’ll discuss our recent work on how visual and auditory cues to space are integrated as we move. There are at least 3 reasons why this turns out to be a difficult problem for the brain to solve (and us to understand!). First, vision and hearing start off in different coordinates (eye-centred vs head-centred), so they need a common reference frame in which to communicate. By preventing eye and head movements, this problem has been neatly sidestepped in the literature, yet self-movement is the norm. Second, self-movement creates visual and auditory image motion. Correct interpretation therefore requires some form of compensation. Third, vision and hearing encode motion in very different ways: vision contains dedicated motion detectors sensitive to speed, whereas hearing does not. We propose that some (all?) of these problems could be solved by considering the perception of audiovisual space as the integration of separate body-centred visual and auditory cues, the latter formed by integrating image motion with motor system signals and vestibular information. To test this claim, we use a classic cue integration framework, modified to account for cues that are biased and partially correlated. We find good evidence for the model based on simple judgements of audiovisual motion within a circular array of speakers and LEDs that surround the participant while they execute self-controlled head movement.

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audiovisual integrationauditory cuesbody-centredcognitioncue integrationimage motionmotion perceptionperceptionself-movementvestibular informationvisionvisual cues

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Tom Freeman

Prof

Cardiff University

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www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/1156503-freeman-tom

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