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A New Sensory Skill Shows Automaticity and Integration Features in Multisensory Interactions
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2021
bioRxiv
pre-print
ABSTRACTPeople can learn new sensory skills that augment their perception, such as human echolocation. However, it is not clear to what extent these can become an integral part of the perceptual repertoire. Can they show automatic use, integrated with the other senses, or do they remain cognitively-demanding, cumbersome, and separate? Here, participants learned to judge distance using an echo-like auditory cue. We show that use of this new skill met three key criteria for automaticity and
doi:10.1101/2021.01.05.425430
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