sensory adaptation – soundQuality org

Long-term music training tunes how the brain temporally binds signals from multiple senses

Updated February 22, 2024 | Published March 10, 2021 by Mic Hael

Practicing a musical instrument is a rich multisensory experience involving the integration of visual, auditory, and tactile inputs with motor responses. This combined psychophysics-fMRI study used the musician’s brain to investigate how sensory-motor experience molds temporal binding of auditory and visual signals. Behaviorally, musicians exhibited a narrower temporal integration window than nonmusicians for music but … Read more

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