The role of multisensory interplay in enabling temporal expectations

摘要

Highlights?Introducing new multisensory paradigm to study temporal expectation (TE) in humans.?Performance facilitation of multisensory interplay (MSI) interacts with TE benefit.?MSI (compared to unisensory) allows built-up of TE even in highly noisy environments.?TE is not transferred across modalities – evidence for modality-specific TE networks.?TE adapt quickly to new contexts and cover large time windows in statistical fashion.AbstractTemporal regularities can guide our attention to focus on a particular moment in time and to be especially vigilant just then. Previous research provided evidence for the influence of temporal expectation on perceptual processing in unisensory auditory, visual, and tactile contexts. However, in real life we are often exposed to a complex and continuous stream of multisensory even