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NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS
Volume 357, Issue 3, Pages 163-166Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2003.12.085
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crossmodal interaction; ventriloquist illusion; mismatch negativity
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The ventriloquist illusion arises when sounds are mislocated towards a synchronous but spatially discrepant visual event. Here, we investigated the ventriloquist illusion at a neurophysiological level. The question was whether an illusory shift in sound location was reflected in the auditory mismatch negativity (MMN). An 'oddball' paradigm was used whereby simultaneously presented sounds and flashes coming from the same location served as standard. The deviant consisted of a sound originating from the same source as the standard together with a flash at 20degrees spatial separation, which evoked an illusory sound shift. This illusory sound shift evoked an MMN closely resembling the MMN evoked by an actual sound shift. A visual-only control condition ruled out that the illusory-evoked MMN was confounded by the visual part of the audiovisual deviant. These results indicate that the crossmodal interaction on which the ventriloquist illusion is based takes place automatically at an early processing stage, within 200 ms after stimulus onset. (C) 2003 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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