TY  - JOUR
A1  - Klaffehn, Annika L.
A1  - Sellmann, Florian B.
A1  - Kirsch, Wladimir
A1  - Kunde, Wilfried
A1  - Pfister, Roland
T1  - Temporal binding as multisensory integration: Manipulating perceptual certainty of actions and their effects
JF  - Attention, Perception & Psychophysics
N2  - It has been proposed that statistical integration of multisensory cues may be a suitable framework to explain temporal binding, that is, the finding that causally related events such as an action and its effect are perceived to be shifted towards each other in time. A multisensory approach to temporal binding construes actions and effects as individual sensory signals, which are each perceived with a specific temporal precision. When they are integrated into one multimodal event, like an action-effect chain, the extent to which they affect this event's perception depends on their relative reliability. We test whether this assumption holds true in a temporal binding task by manipulating certainty of actions and effects. Two experiments suggest that a relatively uncertain sensory signal in such action-effect sequences is shifted more towards its counterpart than a relatively certain one. This was especially pronounced for temporal binding of the action towards its effect but could also be shown for effect binding. Other conceptual approaches to temporal binding cannot easily explain these results, and the study therefore adds to the growing body of evidence endorsing a multisensory approach to temporal binding.
KW  - temporal processing
KW  - perception and action
KW  - multisensory processing
Y1  - 2021
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-273195
SN  - 1943-393X
VL  - 83
IS  - 8
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kirsch, Wladimir
T1  - On the relevance of task instructions for the influence of action on perception
JF  - Attention, Perception & Psychophysics
N2  - The present study explored how task instructions mediate the impact of action on perception. Participants saw a target object while performing finger movements. Then either the size of the target or the size of the adopted finger postures was judged. The target judgment was attracted by the adopted finger posture indicating sensory integration of body-related and visual signals. The magnitude of integration, however, depended on how the task was initially described. It was substantially larger when the experimental instructions indicated that finger movements and the target object relate to the same event than when they suggested that they are unrelated. This outcome highlights the role of causal inference processes in the emergence of action specific influences in perception.
KW  - perception and action
KW  - multisensory processing
KW  - finger movements
Y1  - 2021
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-273185
SN  - 1943-393X
VL  - 83
IS  - 6
ER  -