This article discusses a perception experiment to investigate the relation between auditory and visual cues for marking prosodic prominence. The methodology makes use of a reaction-time experiment. For this experiment, recordings of a sentence with 3 accents were systematically manipulated in such a way that auditory and visual markers of prominence were either congruent (occurring on the same ...

The effects of loudness on the latency of evoked potentials and on simple reaction time were compared. It was found that both reaction time and the evoked-potential latency increases with decreasing stimulus intensity. However, different slopes of the curves were found. This is explained in terms of the arousal effect of loud auditory stimuli.

This article discusses a perception experiment to investigate the relation between auditory and visual cues for marking prosodic prominence. The methodology makes use of a reaction-time experiment. For this experiment, recordings of a sentence with 3 accents were systematically manipulated in such a way that auditory and visual markers of prominence were either congruent (occurring on the same ...

Whether mental performance is affected by slowly progressive moderate dehydration induced by water deprivation has not been examined previously. Therefore, objective and subjective cognitive-motor function was examined in 16 volunteers (8 females, 8 males, mean age: 26 yr) twice, once after 24 h of water deprivation and once during normal water intake (randomized cross-over design; 7-day interv...

The information conveyed by our senses can be combined to facilitate perception and behaviour. One focus of recent research has been on the factors governing such facilitatory multisensory interactions. The spatial register of neuronal receptive fields (RFs) appears to be a prerequisite for multisensory enhancement. In terms of auditory-somatosensory (AS) interactions, facilitatory effects on s...

We investigated the effects of complex treatment using visual and auditory stimuli on the symptoms of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children. Forty-seven male children (7-13 yr old), who were clinically diagnosed with ADHD at the Balance Brain Center in Seoul, Korea, were included in this study. The complex treatment consisted of visual and auditory stimuli, core muscle exe...

In Experiment 1, the effects of stop signal modality on the speed and efficiency of the inhibition process were examined. Stop signal reaction time (SSRT) and inhibition function slope in an auditory stop signal condition were compared to SSRT and inhibition function slope in a visual stop signal condition. It was found that auditory stop signals compared to visual stop signals enhanced both th...

Abstract Language control is important for bilinguals to produce words in the right language. While most previous studies investigated language using visual stimuli with vocal responses, regarding auditory and manual responses was rarely examined. In present study, an alternating switching paradigm used investigate mechanism under two input modalities (visual auditory) output (manual vocal) by ...