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    • Neuroscience
    • Cognitive Science
    • Psychology

    Background:

    • Multisensory integration automatically influences perception across different senses.
    • The factors determining the strength of this cross-modal influence remain incompletely understood.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To investigate whether multisensory impact strength correlates with objective accuracy or subjective confidence of sensory cues.
    • To explore the relationship between confidence, accuracy, and cross-modal influence in perceptual decision-making.

    Main Methods:

    • Visual motion stimuli with varying motion energy (low vs. high) were created.
    • Participants performed a visual-only task to assess accuracy and confidence for these stimuli.
    • The impact of these visual stimuli on auditory motion perception was then measured.

    Main Results:

    • High-energy visual stimuli, associated with higher confidence but lower accuracy, exerted a stronger influence on auditory motion judgments.
    • This effect was contrary to what would be expected if objective accuracy alone determined multisensory impact.

    Conclusions:

    • Automatic multisensory integration is guided by subjective confidence rather than objective performance.
    • Shared computational principles likely underlie confidence reporting and multisensory integration across different perceptual stages.