Publications of the VMP-Lab

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2013

Peters, M.A.K., Thompson, B., Merabet, L.B., Wu, A.D., & Shams, L. (2013). Anodal tDCS to V1 blocks visual perceptual learning consolidation. Neuropsychologia.

2011

Kim, R., Peters, M.A.K., & Shams, L. (2011). 0 + 1 > 1: How adding noninformative sound improves performance on a visual task. Psychological Science. doi:10.1177/0956797611420662

Wozny, D., & Shams, L. (2011). Computational characterization of visually-induced auditory spatial adaptation. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience 5(75): 1-11. doi: 10.3389/fnint.2011.00075

Shams, L., Wozny, D.R., Kim, R., and Seitz, A. (2011). Influences of multi-sensory experience on subsequent unisensory processing. Frontiers in Psychology 2: 264. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00264

Shams, L. (2011). Early integration and Bayesian causal inference in multisensory perception. In “Frontiers in the Neural Bases of Multisensory Processes”. Murray, M., & Wallace, M. (Editors). CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, pp. 217-231.

Shams, L., Beierholm, U., (2011). Humans’ multisensory perception, from integration to segregation, follows Bayesian inference. In “Sensory Cue Integration” Trommershauser, J., Kording, K., Landy, M. (Editors). Oxford University Press, pp. 251-262.

Wozny, D.R., Shams, L. (2011). Recalibration of auditory space following milliseconds of cross-modal discrepancy. Journal of Neuroscience, 31(12): 4607-4612.

2010

Shams, L. (2010). Multimodal interactions: visual-auditory. Encyclopedia of perception, Goldstein, B. (Editor).

Shams, L., Kim, R. (2010). Bayesian priors and multisensory integration at multiple levels of visual processing: Reply to comments on “Crossmodal influences on visual perception”. Physics of Life reviews, 7: 295-298.

Shams, L., Beierholm, U. (2010). Causal inference in perception. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 14: 425-432.

Wozny, D., Beierholm, U., Shams, L. (2010). Probability Matching as a Computational Strategy Used in Perception. PLoS Computational Biology, 6(8): e1000871. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000871

Shams, L., Kim, R. (2010). Crossmodal influences on visual perception. Physics of Life Reviews, online. doi:10.1016/j.plrev.2010.04.006.

Stein, B., Burr, D., Constantinidis, C., Laurienti, P., Meredith, M., Perrault, T., Ramachandran, R., Röder, B., Rowland, B., Sathian, K., Schroeder, C., Shams, L., Stanford, T., Wallace, M., Yu, L., Lewkowicz, D. (2010). Semantic confusion regarding the development of multisensory integration: a practical solution. European Journal of Neuroscience, 31: 1713-1720.

Keane, B., Rosenthal, O., Chun, N., Shams, L. (2010). Audiovisual integration in high functioning adults with autism. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 4: 276-289.

2009

Jacobs, R., Shams, L. (2009). Visual learning in multisensory environments. Advances in Cognitive Sciences. Topics in Cognitive Science, pp 1-9.
Rosenthal, O. Shimojo, S., Shams, L. (2009). Sound-induced flash illusion is resistant to feedback training. Brain Topography, 21: 185-192.
Beierholm, U., Quartz, S., Shams, L. (2009). Bayesian priors are encoded independently from likelihoods in human multisensory perception. Journal of Vision, 9(5):23, pp 1-9. http://journalofvision.org/9/5/23/, doi:10.1167/9.5.23.
Falconbridge, M., Wozny, D., Shams, L., Engel, S. (2009). Adapting to altered image statistics using processed video. Vision Research, 49(14): 1757-64.
Kim, R., Seitz, A., Feenstra, H., Shams, L. (2009). Testing assumptions of statistical learning: Is it implicit and long-term? Neuroscience Letters, 461: 145-149.
Kim, R., Shams, L. (2009). What can magicians teach us about the brain? Scientific American, Mind Matters. March 24, 2009.
Natarajan R, Murray I, Shams L, Zemel R (2009). Characterizing response behavior in multisensory perception with conflicting cues. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems: 1153-1160.
Shams, L. (2009) Crossmodal sensory integration. Oxford companion to consciousness, Wilkens, P., Bayne, T., Cleeremans, A. (Editors). Oxford University Press, pp. 211-212.

2008

Beierholm U, Kording K, Shams L, Ma W-J (2008). Comparing Bayesian models of multisensory cue combination without mandatory integration. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems. Vol. 20, pp. 81-88.
Shams L, Seitz A, (2008). Benefits of multisensory learning. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 12(11), 411-417.
Wozny DR, Beierholm UR, Shams L (2008). Human trimodal perception follows optimal statistical inference. Journal of Vision, 8(3):24, 1-11.
Kim RS, Seitz AR, Shams L (2008). Benefits of stimulus congruency for multisensory facilitation of visual learning. PLoS ONE, 3(1): e1532.
van Wassenhove V, Buonomano DV, Shimojo S, Shams L (2008). Distortions of subjective time perception within and across senses. PLoS ONE, 3(1): e1437.

2007

Newell F, Shams L (2007). New insights into multisensory perception, Guest editorial in Perception special issue on "Advances in multisensory research." Vol. 36, pp. 1415-1418.
Seitz AR, Kim R, van Wassenhove V, Shams L (2007). Simultaneous and independent acquisition of multisensory and unisensory associations. Perception, 36(10), 1445-53.
Kording KP, Beierholm U, Ma WJ, Quartz S, Tenenbaum JB, Shams L (2007). Causal Inference in Multisensory Perception. PLoS ONE, 2(9): e943.
Watkins, S, Shams, L, Josephs, O, Rees, G (2007). Activity in human V1 follows multisensory perception. NeuroImage, 37, 572-578.

2006

Seitz, AR, Kim, R, Shams, L (2006). Sound facilitates visual learning. Current Biology, 16(14), 1422-7.
Watkins, S, Shams, L, Tanaka, S, et al. (2006). Sound alters activity in human V1 in association with illusory visual perception. NeuroImage 31(3), 1247-56.

2005

Shams, L, Ma, WJ, & Beierholm, U. (2005). Sound-induced flash illusion as an optimal percept. Neuroreport, 16(17), 1923-7.
Violentyev, A, Shimojo, S, & Shams, L. (2005). Touch-induced visual illusion. Neuroreport, 16(10), 1107-10.
Shams, L, Iwaki, S, Chawla, A, et al. (2005). Early modulation of visual cortex by sound: an MEG study. Neuroscience letters, 378(2), 76-81.

2002, 2003, & 2004

Shams, L., Kamitani, Y., & Shimojo, S., (2004) Modulations of visual perception by sound. Handbook of Multisensory Processes, Calvert, G., Spence, C., & Stein, B. E. (Editors). MIT Press, pp. 27-34.
Bhattacharya, J., Shams, L., S. & Shimojo, S. (2002). Sound-induced illusory flash perception: Role of Gamma band responses. NeuroReport, Vol. 13, pp. 1727-1730.
Shams, L. & von der Malsburg, C. (2002). The role of complex cells in object recognition. Vision Research. Vol. 42 (22), pp. 2547-2554.
Shams, L., & von der Malsburg, C. (2002). Acquisition of visual shape primitives. Vision Research. Vol. 42 (17), pp. 2105-2122.
Shams, L., Kamitani, Y., & Shimojo, S. (2002). Visual illusion induced by sound. Cognitive Brain Research, Vol. 14, pp. 147-152.
Shams, L. (2002). Integration in the brain: The subconscious alteration of visual perception by cross-modal integration. Science & Consciousness Review, October, No. 1.

2001 and earlier

Shams, L., Kamitani, Y., Thompson, S. & Shimojo, S. (2001) Sound alters visual evoked potentials in humans. NeuroReport, Vol. 12 (17), pp. 3849-3852.
Shimojo, S., & Shams, L. (2001). Sensory modalities are not separate modalities: plasticity and interactions. Current Opinion In Neurobiology, Vol. 11 (4), pp. 505-509.
Shimojo, S., Scheier, C., Shams, L., & Watanabe, K. (2001). Vision beyond visual modality: Auditory effects on visual perception. Journal of the Acoustical Society of Japan, Special Issue on Hearing and the Brain, Vol. 22 (2).
Shams, L., Brady, M. & Schaal, S. (2001). Graph-matching vs. entropy-based methods for object detection. Neural Networks. Vol. 14, pp. 345-354.
Shams, L., Kamitani, Y., & Shimojo, S. (2000). What you see is what you hear. Nature, Vol. 408, pp.788.
Shams, L., & von der Malsburg, C. (1999). Are Object Shape Primitives Learnable? NeuroComputing, Vol. 26-27, pp. 855-863.
Shams, L., & Fiser, J. (1998). A model for development of cortical lateral connectivities using motion informa-tion. Computational NeuroScience: Trends in Research, J. Bower (Editor). Plenum Press, New York, pp. 515-518.