Search research articles

ABOUT JoVE

Overview Leadership Blog JoVE Help Center

AUTHORS

Publishing Process Editorial Board Scope & Policies Peer Review FAQ Submit

LIBRARIANS

Testimonials Subscriptions Access Resources Library Advisory Board FAQ

RESEARCH

JoVE Journal Methods Collections JoVE Encyclopedia of Experiments Archive

EDUCATION

JoVE Core JoVE Business JoVE Science Education JoVE Lab Manual Faculty Resource Center Faculty Site

Terms & Conditions of Use

Related Concept Videos

Sensory Memory

Sensory Memory

Sensory memory captures information from the environment in its original form for a very brief duration, just long enough to be exposed to visual, auditory, and other senses. This type of memory is detailed and rich but quickly lost unless certain strategies are employed to transfer it into short-term or long-term memory. Sensory information is continuously bombarding the human brain, yet only a small fraction is absorbed, as most of it does not significantly impact daily life. For instance,...

Chunking and Rehearsal in Sensory Memory

Chunking and Rehearsal in Sensory Memory

Improving short-term memory can be achieved through techniques like chunking and rehearsal. Chunking involves organizing information into larger, more manageable units. This technique is particularly useful for information that exceeds the typical memory span of between five and nine items. For instance, logging into an online account with a password like "ta89vq0179gz" involves grouping letters and numbers into three chunks—ta89, vq01, and 79gz. It makes large amounts of information more...

Sensory Modalities

Sensory Modalities

Sensation typically is the process by which the sensory receptors and sense organs detect stimuli from the internal and external environment and transmit this information to the central nervous system for processing.
General senses refer to the broad category of sensory information detected by receptors in the body and can be further grouped into somatic and visceral senses. Somatic sensations include touch, pressure, temperature, and pain and are essential for navigating our environment and...

Sensory Perception: Organization of the Somatosensory System

Sensory Perception: Organization of the Somatosensory System

The somatosensory system is the central and peripheral nervous system component that senses and processes touch, pressure, pain, temperature, and body position or proprioception. The process of sensation takes place at three levels:
The receptor level:
The receptor level is the first stage of sensation. It involves the detection of a stimulus by specialized sensory receptors. The stimulus must arrive within the receptor's receptive field. Next, the receptor converts the energy of the stimulus...

You might also read

Related Articles

Articles linked to this work by shared authors, journal, and citation graph.

Sort by

Same author

Experimental validation of a performance curve using a Tetris game.

BMC psychology·2025

Same author

Pressure Stimuli and Spatiotemporal Illusions on the Forearm.

IEEE transactions on haptics·2024

Same author

Electrodermal activity as an index of food neophobia outside the lab.

Frontiers in neuroergonomics·2024

Same author

Physiological synchrony in electrodermal activity predicts decreased vigilant attention induced by sleep deprivation.

Frontiers in neuroergonomics·2024

Same author

Unsupervised Clustering of Individuals Sharing Selective Attentional Focus Using Physiological Synchrony.

Frontiers in neuroergonomics·2024

Same author

Comparing Explicit and Implicit Measures for Assessing Cross-Cultural Food Experience.

Frontiers in neuroergonomics·2024

Search research articles

Related Experiment Video

Updated: Jul 3, 2026

Testing Sensory and Multisensory Function in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Testing Sensory and Multisensory Function in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Published on: April 22, 2015

Multisensory temporal numerosity judgment.

Tom G Philippi¹, Jan B F van Erp, Peter J Werkhoven

¹Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands. tom.philippi@tno.nl

|July 16, 2008

Summary

Multisensory presentation of stimuli can improve temporal numerosity judgment, reducing underestimation errors. However, this integration may increase response variance at very short stimulus intervals.

More Related Videos

A Two-interval Forced-choice Task for Multisensory Comparisons

A Two-interval Forced-choice Task for Multisensory Comparisons

Published on: November 9, 2018

Measuring Attention and Visual Processing Speed by Model-based Analysis of Temporal-order Judgments

Measuring Attention and Visual Processing Speed by Model-based Analysis of Temporal-order Judgments

Published on: January 23, 2017

Related Experiment Videos

Last Updated: Jul 3, 2026

Testing Sensory and Multisensory Function in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Testing Sensory and Multisensory Function in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Published on: April 22, 2015

A Two-interval Forced-choice Task for Multisensory Comparisons

A Two-interval Forced-choice Task for Multisensory Comparisons

Published on: November 9, 2018

Measuring Attention and Visual Processing Speed by Model-based Analysis of Temporal-order Judgments

Measuring Attention and Visual Processing Speed by Model-based Analysis of Temporal-order Judgments

Published on: January 23, 2017

Area of Science:

Cognitive Psychology
Neuroscience
Sensory Perception

Background:

Temporal numerosity judgment often involves systematic underestimation of pulse counts.
Underestimation is most pronounced with short interstimulus intervals (ISIs) and is modality-dependent (vision > audition, touch).

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate whether multisensory presentation reduces underestimation in temporal numerosity judgment.
To examine the impact of different ISIs and sensory modalities on numerosity perception.
To explore the role of multisensory integration in refining temporal estimates.

Main Methods:

Participants judged the number of auditory, tactile, and visual stimuli (2-10 pulses) across varying ISIs (20-320 ms).
Unisensory and multisensory (auditory-tactile, auditory-visual, tactile-visual, auditory-tactile-visual) presentations were employed.
A control experiment identified a cognitive range effect influencing judgments for small pulse numbers.

Main Results:

Underestimation was consistently observed across modalities, except for small pulse counts due to a range effect.
Perceptual performance, averaged across conditions, ranked as touch > audition > vision.
Multisensory presentation generally enhanced performance compared to unisensory conditions.
For larger ISIs, multisensory integration tended to reduce response variance.
For smaller ISIs, multisensory integration reduced underestimation but increased response variance.

Conclusions:

Multisensory integration can improve temporal numerosity judgment by reducing underestimation errors.
The observed effects of multisensory integration on underestimation and variance align with Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE) models.
Sensory modality and interstimulus interval critically influence the effectiveness of temporal numerosity perception and multisensory integration.