Multisensory Processing

Are the mechanisms underlying the perception of information identical across the different sensory modalities? Under which circumstances and how do we combine information from our different sensory modalities (especially vision, audition, and touch)? In our research, we are interested in the processing of information within and across the senses, and our experiments revolve around the question of how our brain combines and / or separates multifaceted informations.

Exemplary Publications

Friehs, M., Schmalbrock, P., Merz, S., Dechant, M., Hartwigsen, G., & Frings, C. (2024). A touching advantage: cross-modal stop-signals improve reactive response inhibition. Experimental Brain Research, 242, 599-618. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-023-06767-7

Soballa, P., Frings, C., Schmalbrock, P., & Merz, S. (2023). Multisensory integration reduces landmark distortions for tactile but not visual targets. Journal of Neurophysiology, 130(6),1403-1413. https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00282.2023

Meyerhoff, H.S., Gehrer, N. A., Merz, S., & Frings, C. (2022). The Beep-Speed Illusion: Non-Spatial Tones Increase Perceived Speed of Visual Objects in a Forced-Choice Paradigm. Cognition, 219, 104978. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104978

Merz, S., Frings, C., Spence, C (2021). When irrelevant information helps: Extending the Eriksen-flanker task into a multisensory world. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 83, 776-789. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-020-02066-3