Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Neurosci. 2011 Jun 1;31(22):7982–7990. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5298-10.2011

Table 2.

Summary of experimental results showing the dissociation between the temporal and spatial linking of multisensory stimuli and the interaction of attention with these linking processes.

Stimulus Neural Perception
Simultaneous Auditory
and Visual Stimuli		 → Spatial Linking
   (200–250ms)
Temporal Linking
   (200–700 ms)
Spreading of Attention
   (200–700ms)		 → Spatial Shift (Ventriloquism)
Judged as Simultaneous
Auditory Tone Delayed
by 100 ms Compared
to Visual		 → Temporal Linking
   (300–800ms)
Spreading of Attention
   (300–800ms)		 → No spatial shift
Judged as Simultaneous
Auditory Tone Delayed
by 300 ms Compared
to Visual		 → No Spatial Linking
No Temporal Linking
No Attentional Spreading		 → No spatial shift
Not judged as Simultaneous