caa a22 4500 445353074 CHVBK 20180317142850.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s00221-011-2543-0 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s00221-011-2543-0 Tactile recalibration of auditory spatial representations [Elektronische Daten] [Patrick Bruns, Charles Spence, Brigitte Röder] In the well-known spatial ventriloquism effect, auditory stimuli are mislocalized towards the location of synchronous but spatially disparate visual stimuli. Recent studies have demonstrated a similar influence of tactile stimuli on auditory localization, which predominantly operates in an external coordinate system. Here, we investigated whether this audio-tactile ventriloquist illusion leads to comparable aftereffects in the perception of auditory space as have been observed previously for audiovisual stimulation. Participants performed a relative sound localization task in which they had to judge whether a brief sound was perceived at the same or a different location as a preceding tactile stimulus ("Experiment 1”) or to the left or right of a preceding visual stimulus ("Experiment 2”). Sound localization ability was measured before and after exposure to synchronous audio-tactile stimuli with a constant spatial disparity. After audio-tactile adaptation, unimodal sound localization was shifted in the direction of the tactile stimuli during the preceding adaptation phase in both tasks. This finding provides evidence for the existence of an audio-tactile ventriloquism aftereffect and suggests that auditory space (rather than specific audio-tactile connections) can be rapidly recalibrated to compensate for audio-tactile spatial disparities. Springer-Verlag, 2011 Audition nationallicence Multisensory nationallicence Plasticity nationallicence Spatial perception nationallicence Touch nationallicence Ventriloquism aftereffect nationallicence Bruns Patrick Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology, University of Hamburg, Von-Melle-Park 11, 20146, Hamburg, Germany aut Spence Charles Crossmodal Research Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK aut Röder Brigitte Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology, University of Hamburg, Von-Melle-Park 11, 20146, Hamburg, Germany aut Experimental Brain Research Springer-Verlag 209/3(2011-03-01), 333-344 0014-4819 209:3<333 2011 209 221 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-011-2543-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-011-2543-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Bruns Patrick Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology, University of Hamburg, Von-Melle-Park 11, 20146, Hamburg, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Spence Charles Crossmodal Research Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Röder Brigitte Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology, University of Hamburg, Von-Melle-Park 11, 20146, Hamburg, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Experimental Brain Research Springer-Verlag 209/3(2011-03-01), 333-344 0014-4819 209:3<333 2011 209 221 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer