Audiovisual fusion is context-modulated, not automatic, and scales with audio-video coherence

Evidence

Audiovisual fusion has long been considered as an automatic fusion process (e.g. Massaro 1987 ). However Exp. A. confirms that the contextual stimulus may modulate fusion as in our previous experiments (Nahorna et al. 2012 ; Ganesh et al. 2013 ; Nahorna et al. 2015 ) and extends the concept to the case of competing sources. — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 5177

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the browser/mediator debates in speech perception literature and to general multisensory integration theory. — connects to: Exposure to low-coherence audiovisual contexts reduces subsequent multisensory fusion; Voluntary attention modulates how audiovisual contexts affect subsequent fusion — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 5137; Selective attention modulates fusion only for low-coherence video sentence contexts. (+8 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 5177

Broader Connections

• Vision and sound expectations must concord for convincing audio-scene perception #corroborates (0.85)
• Matching acoustical and visual context yields convincing binaural externalization #corroborates (0.82) — Toole, Floyd E, Sound reproduction- the acoustics and…, 296