Hearing cheats touch, but less in congenitally blind than in sighted individuals
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The principles of cross-modal integration were investigated with an auditory-tactile illusion in sighted and congenitally blind adults. Participants had to judge the number of rapidly presented tactile stimuli, which were presented together with task-irrelevant sounds. When one tactile stimulus was accompanied by more than one tone, participants reported perceiving more than a single touch. This illusion was more pronounced in sighted than congenitally blind participants. Given that the congenitally blind were more precise in judging the number of tactile stimuli in a control condition without tones, the present data are in accordance with a modality-appropriateness account suggesting that interference by a task-irrelevant modality is reduced if processing accuracy of the task-relevant modality is high.
Publication Name: Psychological Science
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0956-7976
Year: 2004
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Involuntary listening aids hearing
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Two experiments on involuntary listening were conducted to produce strong evidence of stimulus-driven single-band listening. The experiments involve the measurement of response time, accuracy and response bias in an auditory intensity discrimination task. Results demonstrate that a cue's tone caused an apparent involuntary shifting of attention to its frequency region. A faster and more accurate processing at a target tone results at the same frequency as the cue than when it occurred at a different frequency.
Publication Name: Psychological Science
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0956-7976
Year: 1997
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Multiplexed microsatellites for rapid identification and characterization of individuals and populations of Cercopithecidae
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Three multiplex sets were performed, where each comprised of five markers, to allow for quick, efficient, and high-throughput genotyping to assess intra- and interspecific genetic variation. These multiplex sets are likely to reveal allelic divergence between taxa, which could be used for their discrimination, and is reliable for forensic applications, such as individual identification, parentage testing, and kinship analysis, in wild and captive populations.
Publication Name: American Journal of Primatology
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0275-2565
Year: 2005
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