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Lost in space: multisensory conflict yields adaptation in spatial representations across frames of reference

Overview of attention for article published in Cognitive Processing, March 2017
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Lost in space: multisensory conflict yields adaptation in spatial representations across frames of reference
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Cognitive Processing, March 2017
DOI 10.1007/s10339-017-0798-5
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Johannes Lohmann, Martin V. Butz

Abstract

According to embodied cognition, bodily interactions with our environment shape the perception and representation of our body and the surrounding space, that is, peripersonal space. To investigate the adaptive nature of these spatial representations, we introduced a multisensory conflict between vision and proprioception in an immersive virtual reality. During individual bimanual interaction trials, we gradually shifted the visual hand representation. As a result, participants unknowingly shifted their actual hands to compensate for the visual shift. We then measured the adaptation to the invoked multisensory conflict by means of a self-localization and an external localization task. While effects of the conflict were observed in both tasks, the effects systematically interacted with the type of localization task and the available visual information while performing the localization task (i.e., the visibility of the virtual hands). The results imply that the localization of one's own hands is based on a multisensory integration process, which is modulated by the saliency of the currently most relevant sensory modality and the involved frame of reference. Moreover, the results suggest that our brain strives for consistency between its body and spatial estimates, thereby adapting multiple, related frames of reference, and the spatial estimates within, due to a sensory conflict in one of them.

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Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 1%
Italy 1 1%
Unknown 69 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 15 21%
Student > Master 9 13%
Researcher 7 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 7%
Student > Bachelor 3 4%
Other 13 18%
Unknown 19 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 18 25%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 6%
Neuroscience 4 6%
Computer Science 3 4%
Medicine and Dentistry 3 4%
Other 15 21%
Unknown 24 34%
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