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SUMMARY:Assessing the role of cross modal information in high level percep
 tion: enhancements and constraints.  - Professor Fiona Newell\, School of 
 Psychology and Institute of Neuroscience\, Trinity College Dublin.
DTSTART:20170120T163000Z
DTEND:20170120T180000Z
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CONTACT:Louise White
DESCRIPTION:My talk will focus on the role of vision\, haptics and auditio
 n on our ability to perceive and recognize objects\, faces and scenes. Rec
 ent studies have found strong evidence for early interactions between the 
 senses that underpin perception. In the past we have used behavioural para
 digms\, such as cross-sensory interference and perceptual learning\, to in
 vestigate the role of sensory dominance in specific perceptual tasks. Our 
 more recent studies have involved an investigation of task-specificity in 
 these multisensory interactions and I will discuss how cases of sensory de
 privation\, and a recent case of visual recovery\, can reveal the log-term
  nature of these cross-sensory interactions in perception. In general\, ou
 r findings point to a functional organisation of sensory inputs in which i
 nformation can be shared across modalities to provide a robust representat
 ion of the world. However\, the extent to which information is shared depe
 nds on the functional capacity of particular modalities that are optimized
  for specific tasks.\n\n\n
LOCATION:Ground Floor Lecture Theatre\, Department of Psychology
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