Publications by authors named "Katharina M Borzeszkowski"
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- The brain integrates information from different senses to create clear perceptions, but understanding how this works is complex, especially regarding alertness and multisensory integration.
- Researchers conducted experiments with European starlings using visual and auditory cues to see how timing affects perception of light.
- Findings suggest that sounds preceding visual stimuli help with alerting and processing, while sounds following visual stimuli enhance integration during a specific time window.
Sound localization studies have typically employed two types of tasks: absolute tasks that measured the localization of the angular location of a single sound and relative tasks that measured the localization of the angular location of a sound relative to the angular location of another sound from a different source (e.g., in the Minimum Audible Angle task).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLong signal durations that represent closed-loop conditions permit responses based on the sensory feedback during the presentation of the stimulus, while short stimulus durations that represent open-loop conditions do not allow for directed head turns during signal presentation. A previous study showed that for broadband noise stimuli, the minimum audible angle (MAA) of the European starling (Sturnus vulgaris) is smaller under closed-loop compared to open-loop conditions (Feinkohl & Klump, 2013). Head turns represent a possible strategy to improve sound localization cues under closed-loop conditions.
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