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

Synesthesia

Synesthesia

Synesthesia is a remarkable condition where stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. People with synesthesia experience a blending or crossing of their senses, such as sight and sound, leading to cross-modal sensations. In this condition, the stimulation of one sense, such as hearing a number or musical note, triggers an experience of another sense, like sensing a specific color, taste, or smell. People...

Auditory Perception

Auditory Perception

The auditory system is essential for sound perception, utilizing various critical structures. When sound waves enter the outer ear, they travel through the ear canal and cause the eardrum to vibrate. These vibrations are then transmitted to the middle ear, where three tiny bones – the malleus, incus, and stapes – amplify the sound. This amplification is crucial, as it ensures that the sound vibrations are strong enough to be conveyed to the inner ear. These vibrations then reach the...

Visual Agnosia

Visual Agnosia

Visual agnosia is a condition characterized by the inability to recognize visually presented objects despite having normal vision. For instance, a person with visual agnosia can describe the shape and color of an object but cannot identify or name it. This impairment does not affect their visual field, acuity, color vision, brightness discrimination, language, or memory. An example of this condition in a social setting is someone at a dinner party asking for "that silver thing with a round...

Perception of Sound Waves

Perception of Sound Waves

The human ear is not equally sensitive to all frequencies in the audible range. It may perceive sound waves with the same pressure but different frequencies as having different loudness. Moreover, the perception of sound waves depends on the health of an individual's ears, which decays with age. The health of one's ears may also be affected by regular exposure to loud noises.
The pitch of a sound depends on the frequency and the pressure amplitude of the source. Two sounds of the same...

Perceiving Loudness, Pitch, and Location

Perceiving Loudness, Pitch, and Location

The human brain perceives pitch through two primary mechanisms reflected in place theory and frequency theory. Each mechanism describes how sound waves are interpreted as specific pitches by the brain, offering insights into the intricate processes of auditory perception.
Place theory, or place coding, suggests that different pitches are heard because various sound waves activate specific locations along the cochlea's basilar membrane. The brain determines the pitch of a sound by...

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...

You might also read

Related Articles

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

Sort by

Same author

Consensus Guidelines for Therapeutic Drug Monitoring in Neuropsychopharmacology: Update 2026 - Pharmacokinetic, pharmacogenetic and clinical aspects.

Pharmacopsychiatry·2026

Same author

Secondary Restless Legs Syndrome during psychopharmacological treatment: real-world evidence from a multinational pharmacovigilance program.

The international journal of neuropsychopharmacology·2026

Same author

The relationship between personality traits, sex, age, performance level, and playing position in recreational handball.

BMC psychology·2026

Same author

Brief Audiovisual Feedback Training Yields Long-Lasting Gains in Multisensory Integration and Speech Comprehension: Contributions of Different Cognitive Abilities.

Multisensory research·2026

Same author

Is conflict adaptation disrupted in schizophrenia? An ERP study.

Cognitive neuropsychiatry·2026

Same author

The effects of the menstrual cycle on physical and psychological parameters in female athletes.

Scientific reports·2026

Search research articles

Related Experiment Video

Updated: Nov 5, 2025

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

Audiovisual Simultaneity Judgements in Synaesthesia.

Anna Borgolte¹, Ahmad Bransi², Johanna Seifert¹

¹Department of Psychiatry, Social Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Strasse 1, 30625 Hannover, Germany.

Multisensory Research

|May 13, 2021

Summary

Individuals with synaesthesia, a condition linking senses, show enhanced ability in distinguishing between visual and auditory stimuli, particularly when visual input precedes sound. This finding sheds light on multisensory integration in synaesthesia.

More Related Videos

Training Synesthetic Letter-color Associations by Reading in Color

Training Synesthetic Letter-color Associations by Reading in Color

Published on: February 20, 2014

A Two-interval Forced-choice Task for Multisensory Comparisons

A Two-interval Forced-choice Task for Multisensory Comparisons

Published on: November 9, 2018

Related Experiment Videos

Last Updated: Nov 5, 2025

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

Training Synesthetic Letter-color Associations by Reading in Color

Training Synesthetic Letter-color Associations by Reading in Color

Published on: February 20, 2014

A Two-interval Forced-choice Task for Multisensory Comparisons

A Two-interval Forced-choice Task for Multisensory Comparisons

Published on: November 9, 2018

Area of Science:

Neuroscience
Psychology
Sensory Perception

Background:

Synaesthesia involves involuntary cross-sensory experiences.
Normal multisensory processing in synaesthetes remains under-investigated.
Audiovisual integration is a key aspect of sensory processing.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate audiovisual separation in individuals with synaesthesia.
To compare multisensory processing in synaesthetes versus control groups.
To understand temporal aspects of sensory integration in synaesthesia.

Main Methods:

Utilized a simultaneity judgment task.
Systematically varied stimulus onset asynchronies (SOA).
Assessed the temporal order of auditory and visual stimuli.

Main Results:

Synaesthetes demonstrated superior ability in separating auditory and visual events compared to controls.
This enhanced separation was specifically observed when visual stimuli preceded auditory stimuli.
Performance differences were dependent on the temporal lead of the visual modality.

Conclusions:

Synaesthesia impacts audiovisual temporal processing.
Individuals with synaesthesia exhibit distinct capabilities in dissociating concurrent sensory inputs.
Findings suggest unique mechanisms of sensory gating or temporal resolution in synaesthetes.