Audio-Visual Integration in Anticipation: The Role of Context Information and Task Requirements
Mon-A6-Talk III-01
Presented by: Florian Müller
In general, research on anticipation in sports (see Cañal-Bruland & Mann, 2015; Loffing & Cañal-Bruland, 2017) has targeted the role of visual information processing in anticipating others' actions. In contrast, the role of auditory information and its multisensory integration with additional sensory modalities has only recently received attention. In this talk we will first review work on the role of auditory information in anticipating ball trajectories and speed judgments in tennis, covering both the effects of racket ball contact sounds (Cañal-Bruland et al., 2018) and of grunting accompanying players' strokes (Müller et al., 2019). We then turn to highlight recent work testing whether such multisensory integration effects on anticipation are dependent on the specific context (e.g., tennis rallies) or are driven by universal principles of perceptual processing (Cañal-Bruland et al., 2022). Finally, we will present studies using continuous behavioral measures (i.e., finger tracking) in multisensory anticipation paradigms and discuss their use in charting the time sensitivity of multisensory integration.
Keywords: context, auditory perception, multisensory integration, anticipation, sport, tennis