Objectives: Autism is one subsets of pervasive developmental disorders that are characterized by abnormal behaviors and verbal communication. In recent years, the reason for this communication disorder has been developed for determining executive function. The current study investigated the feasibility of audiovisual stimulation intervention focused on enhancing executive function in children w...

The Audiovisual Aids Subcommittee of the American College of Rheumatology is pleased to present the winners of the 2013 Annual Image Competition. Each year, the competition provides an opportunity for clinicians and other medical and research professionals to contribute to one of the preeminent image collections devoted to rheumatic diseases. For the 2013 competition, more than 220 entries were...

The American College of Rheumatology Audiovisual Aids Subcommittee is pleased to present the winners of the 2012 Annual Image Competition. Each year, the competition provides an opportunity for clinicians and other medical and research professionals to contribute to one of the preeminent image collections devoted to rheumatic diseases. For the 2012 competition, more than 200 entries were receiv...

The major project completed by the Audiovisual Aids Subcommittee of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) in 2009 was the development of an online image bank. The ACR launched the Rheumatology Image Bank at its 2009 Annual Scientific Meeting in Philadelphia. This online library contains more than 1,500 images of rheumatic diseases and conditions and includes images from the ACR Slide Colle...

The ability to integrate auditory and visual information is critical for effective perception and interaction with the environment, and is thought to be abnormal in some clinical populations. Several studies have investigated the time window over which audiovisual events are integrated, also called the temporal binding window, and revealed asymmetries depending on the order of audiovisual input...

BACKGROUND Perceived spatial intervals between successive flashes can be distorted by varying the temporal intervals between them (the "tau effect"). A previous study showed that a tau effect for visual flashes could be induced when they were accompanied by auditory beeps with varied temporal intervals (an audiovisual tau effect). METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS We conducted two experiments to...

Research has shown that speech segment perception is predominantly a function of the left hemisphere. The aim of this study is to determine if the visual field in which visual speech is presented affects the audiovisual percept. Results show increased audiovisual fusion in the right visual field and exclude that the difference was a result of facial asymmetry. Findings indicate more efficient e...

The McGurk effect demonstrates the existence of a fusion process in audiovisual speech perception. We consider here the assumption that fusion is controlled by an upstream conditional binding process, which can block fusion in the case of strong audiovisual inconsistencies, as in the case of a dubbed film. To test this hypothesis, we designed two experiments in which a consistent or inconsisten...