Multisensory Research
August 18, 2026
Zhuanghua Shi, Virginie Van Wassenhove
In this viewpoint article, Zhuanghua Shi and Virginie van Wassenhove discuss the past, present, and future of multisensory time perception. Drawing on decades of research, they argue that the field has undergone an important shift from the centralized internal clock toward timing as an active inference process. This framework, rooted in Bayesian models and predictive coding, suggests that our...
Multisensory Research
November 28, 2024
Thomas J. Hostler, Giulia L. Poerio, Clau Nader et al.
3 citations
Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) is a multisensory experience most often associated with feelings of relaxation and altered consciousness, elicited by stimuli which include whispering, repetitive movements, and close personal attention. Since 2015, ASMR research has grown rapidly, spanning disciplines from neuroscience to media studies but lacking a collaborative or interdisciplinary...
Multisensory Research
January 1, 2018
Jennifer L Campos, Graziella El-Khechen Richandi, Babak Taati et al.
Percepts about our body's position in space and about body ownership are informed by multisensory feedback from visual, proprioceptive, and tactile inputs. The Rubber Hand Illusion (RHI) is a multisensory illusion that is induced when an observer sees a rubber hand being stroked while they feel their own, spatially displaced, and obstructed hand being stroked. When temporally synchronous, the...
Multisensory Research
2017
Philippe A. Chouinard, Joshua A. Sherman, Amy Siobhan Millard et al.
In this article, we consider the usefulness of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and perturbation in evaluating causal relationships between bodily self-consciousness and the brain. We argue that fMRI research is not always restricted to correlational statements when it is combined with perturbation techniques and can sometimes permit some degree of causal inferencing, such as when...
Multisensory Research
2017
Carol Steen
I have been a synesthete all my life and thought I understood my synesthetic perceptions rather well when, suddenly, in 2013, I began to see a new kind of internal image: hypnagogic visions. These visions, a normal state of consciousness, are known to occur somewhere between wakefulness and sleep. They appeared to me as another source of photisms, in addition to my usual synesthetic...
Multisensory Research
2016
Ophelia Deroy, Nathan Faivre, Claudia Lunghi et al.
73 citations
widespread neural interactions. Yet the complex interdependencies between multisensory integration and perceptual awareness, or consciousness, remain to be defined. While perceptual awareness has traditionally been studied in a single sense, in recent years we have witnessed a surge of interest in the role of multisensory integration in perceptual awareness. Based on a recent IMRF symposium on...
Multisensory Research
2016
Kentaro Hiromitsu, Akira Midorikawa
Out-of-body experiences (OBEs) have been reported in patients with neurological or psychiatric disorders. According to these reports, the patients looked down on their body from overhead. Based on this phenomenon, we adopted a downward perspective in an experimentally induced OBE paradigm and compared responses to an OBE questionnaire (sensations of OBE) with self-location mapping (feelings of...
Multisensory Research
2015
Mariia Kaliuzhna, Dominique Vibert, Petr Grivaz et al.
Out-of-body experiences (OBEs) are illusory perceptions of one's body from an elevated disembodied perspective. Recent theories postulate a double disintegration process in the personal (visual, proprioceptive and tactile disintegration) and extrapersonal (visual and vestibular disintegration) space as the basis of OBEs. Here we describe a case which corroborates and extends this hypothesis....
Multisensory Research
2015
Kathrine Jáuregui Renaud
Patients with an acquired sensory dysfunction may experience symptoms of detachment from self or from the environment, which are related primarily to nonspecific symptoms of common mental disorders and secondarily, to the specific sensory dysfunction. This is consistent with the proposal that sensory dysfunction could provoke distress and a discrepancy between the multi-sensory frame given by...