Erratum to "Gravity-Dependent Animacy Perception in Zebrafish".

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.34133/2022/9829016.].

Linear integration of multisensory signals in the pupil.

The pupil of the eye responds to various salient signals from different modalities, but there is no consensus on how these pupillary responses are integrated when multiple signals appear simultaneously. Both linear and nonlinear integration have been found previously. The current study aimed to reexamine the nature of pupillary integration, and specifically focused on the early, transient pupillary responses due to its close relationship with orienting.

Rapid Unconscious Acquisition of Conditioned Fear with Low-Spatial-Frequency but Emotionally Neutral Stimuli.

It has long been proposed that emotionally "prepared" (i.e., fear-related) stimuli are privileged in the unconscious acquisition of conditioned fear.

Eye pupil signals life motion perception.

The ability to readily detect and recognize biological motion (BM) is fundamental to survival and interpersonal communication. However, perception of BM is strongly disrupted when it is shown upside down. This well-known inversion effect is proposed to be caused by a life motion detection mechanism highly tuned to gravity-compatible motion cues.

Conscious and unconscious processing of ensemble statistics oppositely modulate perceptual decision-making.

Our visual system possesses a remarkable ability to extract summary statistical information from groups of similar objects, known as ensemble perception. It remains elusive whether the processing of ensemble statistics exerts influences on our perceptual decision-making and what roles consciousness and attention play in this process. In a series of experiments, we demonstrated that the processing of ensemble statistics can exert significant modulation effects on our perceptual decision-making, which is independent of consciousness but relies on attentional resources.

Cortical encoding of rhythmic kinematic structures in biological motion.

Biological motion (BM) perception is of great survival value to human beings. The critical characteristics of BM information lie in kinematic cues containing rhythmic structures. However, how rhythmic kinematic structures of BM are dynamically represented in the brain and contribute to visual BM processing remains largely unknown.

Looking more masculine among females: Spatial context modulates gender perception of face and biological motion.

Perception of visual information highly depends on spatial context. For instance, perception of a low-level visual feature, such as orientation, can be shifted away from its surrounding context, exhibiting a simultaneous contrast effect. Although previous studies have demonstrated the adaptation aftereffect of gender, a high-level visual feature, it remains largely unknown whether gender perception can also be shaped by a simultaneously presented context.

Gravity-Dependent Animacy Perception in Zebrafish.

Biological motion (BM), depicted by a handful of point lights attached to the major joints, conveys rich animacy information, which is significantly disrupted if BM is shown upside down. This well-known inversion effect in BM perception is conserved in terrestrial vertebrates and is presumably a manifestation of an evolutionarily endowed perceptual filter (i.e.

Following Other People's Footsteps: A Contextual-Attraction Effect Induced by Biological Motion.

Our visual system is bombarded with numerous social interactions that form intangible social bonds among people, as exemplified by synchronized walking in crowds. Here, we investigated whether these perceived social bonds implicitly intrude on visual perception and induce a contextual effect. Using multiple point-light walkers and a classical contextual paradigm, we tested 72 college-age adults across six experiments and found that the perceived direction of the central walker was attracted toward the direction of the surrounding walkers.

Social attention triggered by eye gaze and walking direction is resistant to temporal decay.

The attentional orienting induced by social cues, such as eye gaze and walking direction of biological motion, plays a vital role in human survival and interpersonal interactions. It has long been debated whether this indispensable ability is unique and intrinsically distinct from nonsocial attention. In the current study, we characterized the temporal profiles of the attentional orienting triggered by social cues (i.

Multisensory signals inhibit pupillary light reflex: Evidence from pupil oscillation.

Multisensory integration, which enhances stimulus saliency at the early stage of the processing hierarchy, has been recently shown to produce a larger pupil size than its unisensory constituents. Theoretically, any modulation on pupil size ought to be associated with the sympathetic and parasympathetic pathways that are sensitive to light. But it remains poorly understood how the pupillary light reflex is changed in a multisensory context.

Attentional focus modulates automatic finger-tapping movements.

The majority of human behaviors are composed of automatic movements (e.g., walking or finger-tapping) which are learned during nurturing and can be performed simultaneously without interfering with other tasks.

Perception of social interaction compresses subjective duration in an oxytocin-dependent manner.

Communication through body gestures permeates our daily life. Efficient perception of the message therein reflects one's social cognitive competency. Here we report that such competency is manifested temporally as shortened subjective duration of social interactions: motion sequences showing agents acting communicatively are perceived to be significantly shorter in duration as compared with those acting noncommunicatively.

Dynamic tilt illusion induced by continuous contextual orientation alternations.

In the classic tilt illusion, the perceived orientation of a center patch is shifted away from its oriented context. Additionally, a stronger illusion effect is yielded when the center patch is simultaneously rather than asynchronously presented with a constant context for a shorter duration. However, little is known about the temporal characteristic of the tilt illusion in a reverse situation in which a constant center patch is presented throughout while the contexts change.

Subliminal Impending Collision Increases Perceived Object Size and Enhances Pupillary Light Reflex.

Fast detection of ambient danger is crucial for the survival of biological entities. Previous studies have shown that threatening information can bias human visual perception and enhance physiological reactions. It remains to be delineated whether the modulation of threat on human perceptual and physiological responses can take place below awareness.

Pre-stimulus beta and gamma oscillatory power predicts perceived audiovisual simultaneity.

Pre-stimulus oscillation activity in the brain continuously fluctuates, but it is correlated with subsequent behavioral and perceptual performance. Here, using fast Fourier transformation of pre-stimulus electroencephalograms, we explored how oscillatory power modulates the subsequent discrimination of perceived simultaneity from non-simultaneity in the audiovisual domain. We found that the over-scalp high beta (20-28Hz), parieto-occipital low beta (14-20Hz), and high gamma oscillations (55-80Hz) were significantly stronger before audition-then-vision sequence when they were judged as simultaneous rather than non-simultaneous.

Visual duration aftereffect is position invariant.

Adaptation to relatively long or short sensory events leads to a negative aftereffect, such that the durations of the subsequent events within a certain range appear to be contracted or expanded. The distortion in perceived duration is presumed to arise from the adaptation of duration detectors. Here, we focus on the positional sensitivity of those visual duration detectors by exploring whether the duration aftereffect may be constrained by the visual location of stimuli.

The aftereffect of perceived duration is contingent on auditory frequency but not visual orientation.

Recent sensory history plays a critical role in duration perception. It has been established that after adapting to a particular duration, the test durations within a certain range appear to be distorted. To explore whether the aftereffect of perceived duration can be constrained by sensory modality and stimulus feature within a modality, the current study applied the technique of simultaneous sensory adaptation, by which observers were able to simultaneously adapt to two durations defined by two different stimuli.

Individual alerting efficiency modulates time perception.

Time perception plays a fundamental role in human perceptual and motor activities, and can be influenced by various factors, such as selective attention and arousal. However, little is known about the influence of individual alerting efficiency on perceived duration. In this study, we explored this question by running two experiments.

Multiple concurrent temporal recalibrations driven by audiovisual stimuli with apparent physical differences.

Out-of-synchrony experiences can easily recalibrate one's subjective simultaneity point in the direction of the experienced asynchrony. Although temporal adjustment of multiple audiovisual stimuli has been recently demonstrated to be spatially specific, perceptual grouping processes that organize separate audiovisual stimuli into distinctive "objects" may play a more important role in forming the basis for subsequent multiple temporal recalibrations. We investigated whether apparent physical differences between audiovisual pairs that make them distinct from each other can independently drive multiple concurrent temporal recalibrations regardless of spatial overlap.

Working memory modulates the association between time and number representation.

Time and numbers are interconnected in mental representation. Here we investigated whether this interaction between time and number could be modulated by working memory (WM). In experiment 1 participants first memorized a digit and then judged which of the two digits presented in succession were presented for longer (or shorter), with either one or neither of them being the same as the WM digit.

The recalibration patterns of perceptual synchrony and multisensory integration after exposure to asynchronous speech.

Perceptual synchrony and multisensory integration both vary as a function of stimulus onset asynchrony, but evidences from behavioral, patient, and lesion studies all support some dissociation between these two processes. Although it has been found that both perceptual synchrony and multisensory integration are recalibrated after exposure to asynchronous multisensory stimuli, no studies have directly compared these two recalibration patterns. We addressed this by using McGurk speech and requiring participants to perform simultaneity judgments and a syllable identification task in separate sessions.

Audiovisual temporal recalibration: space-based versus context-based.

Recalibration of perceived simultaneity has been widely accepted to minimise delay between multisensory signals owing to different physical and neural conduct times. With concurrent exposure, temporal recalibration is either contextually or spatially based. Context-based recalibration was recently described in detail, but evidence for space-based recalibration is scarce.