The development of audio–visual temporal precision precedes its rapid recalibration

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Abstract

Through development, multisensory systems reach a balance between stability and flexibility: the systems integrate optimally cross-modal signals from the same events, while remaining adaptive to environmental changes. Is continuous intersensory recalibration required to shape optimal integration mechanisms, or does multisensory integration develop prior to recalibration? Here, we examined the development of multisensory integration and rapid recalibration in the temporal domain by re-analyzing published datasets for audio–visual, audio–tactile, and visual–tactile combinations. Results showed that children reach an adult level of precision in audio–visual simultaneity perception and show the first sign of rapid recalibration at 9 years of age. In contrast, there was very weak rapid recalibration for other cross-modal combinations at all ages, even when adult levels of temporal precision had developed. Thus, the development of audio–visual rapid recalibration appears to require the maturation of temporal precision. It may serve to accommodate distance-dependent travel time differences between light and sound.

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Han, S., Chen, Y. C., Maurer, D., Shore, D. I., Lewis, T. L., Stanley, B. M., & Alais, D. (2022). The development of audio–visual temporal precision precedes its rapid recalibration. Scientific Reports, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-25392-y

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