TY - JOUR
T1 - Comment on “Differential effects of the temporal and spatial distribution of audiovisual stimuli on cross‐modal spatial recalibration”
AU - Vroomen, Jean
AU - Stekelenburg, Jeroen J.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Bruns et al. (2020) provide new research that suggests that the ventriloquism after‐effect (VAE: an enduring shift of the perceived location of a sound toward a previously seen visual stimulus) and multisensory enhancement (ME: an improvement in the precision of sound localization) may dissociate depending on the rate at which exposure stimuli are presented. They reported that the VAE, but not the ME, was diminished when exposure stimuli were presented at 10 Hz rather than at 2 Hz. To the authors, this suggested that different neural structures underlie the VAE and ME. In our view, however, this needs to be tested more extensively because alternative and simpler explanations have not yet been checked.
AB - Bruns et al. (2020) provide new research that suggests that the ventriloquism after‐effect (VAE: an enduring shift of the perceived location of a sound toward a previously seen visual stimulus) and multisensory enhancement (ME: an improvement in the precision of sound localization) may dissociate depending on the rate at which exposure stimuli are presented. They reported that the VAE, but not the ME, was diminished when exposure stimuli were presented at 10 Hz rather than at 2 Hz. To the authors, this suggested that different neural structures underlie the VAE and ME. In our view, however, this needs to be tested more extensively because alternative and simpler explanations have not yet been checked.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85094562918&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/ejn.15001
DO - 10.1111/ejn.15001
M3 - Comment/Letter to the editor
SN - 0953-816X
VL - 53
SP - 3637
EP - 3639
JO - European Journal of Neuroscience
JF - European Journal of Neuroscience
IS - 11
ER -