Visual over auditory superiority in sensorimotor timing under optimized condition

Frontiers in Psychology

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Liying Zhan¹  Yingyu Huang¹  Zhihan Guo¹  Junkai Yang¹  Li Gu¹  Shengqi Zhong¹  Xiang Wu¹ 

[1] Department of Psychology, Sun Yat-sen University

关键词: audition;    ecological;    sensorimotor;    timing;    Vision;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1048943

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Auditory over visual advantage in temporal processing is generally appreciated, such as the well-established auditory superiority in sensorimotor timing. To test for a possible visual superiority in temporal processing, here, we present a data set composed of a large sixty-subject sample and a data set including eight smaller samples of approximately fifteen subjects, showing that synchronization to a temporally regular sequence was more stable for a visual bouncing ball than for auditory tones. The results demonstrate that vision can be superior over audition in sensorimotor timing under optimized conditions, challenging the generally believed auditory superiority in temporal processing. In contrast to the auditory-specific biological substrates of timing in sensorimotor interaction, the present finding points to tight visual-motor cortical coupling in sensorimotor timing.

【 授权许可】

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