Reference frame of the ventriloquism aftereffect.
Reference frame of the ventriloquism aftereffect.
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10.1523/jneurosci.2783-09.2009
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2009-11-04
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Groh JM
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Kopco N;Lin IF;Shinn-Cunningham BG;Groh JM
Seeing the image of a newscaster on a television set causes us to think that the sound coming from the loudspeaker is actually coming from the screen. How images capture sounds is mysterious because the brain uses different methods for determining the locations of visual vs. auditory stimuli. The retina senses the locations of visual objects with respect to the eyes, whereas differences in sound characteristics across the ears indicate the locations of sound sources referenced to the head. Here, we tested which reference frame (RF) is used when vision recalibrates perceived sound locations. Visually guided biases in sound localization were induced in seven humans and two monkeys who made eye movements to auditory or audio-visual stimuli. On audio-visual (training) trials, the visual component of the targets was displaced laterally by ~5°. Interleaved auditory-only (probe) trials served to evaluate the effect of experience with mismatched visual stimuli on auditory localization. We found that the displaced visual stimuli induced ventriloquism aftereffect in both humans (~50% of the displacement size) and monkeys (~25%), but only for locations around the trained spatial region, showing that audio-visual recalibration can be spatially specific. We tested the reference frame in which the recalibration occurs. On probe trials, we varied eye position relative to the head to dissociate head- from eye-centered RFs. Results indicate that both humans and monkeys use a mixture of the two RFs, suggesting that the neural mechanisms involved in ventriloquism occur in brain region(s) employing a hybrid RF for encoding spatial information.
