Crossmodal Research Laboratory, Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford University, Oxford, UK There has been longstanding interest from both experimental psychologists and cognitive ...

We question whether these terms are, in fact, co-terminous. We also evaluate the evidence concerning how rapidly the unity effect can be demonstrated when formerly unrelated pairs of sensory stimuli ...

Whenever two or more sensory inputs are highly consistent in one or more dimension(s), observers will be more likely to perceive them as a single multisensory event rather than as separate unimodal ...