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Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
7445B FH
310-206-3630
ladan@psych.ucla.edu |
Research Interests
Research in our laboratory is concerned with the question of
how the brain
integrates the
information from different sensory modalities into one
coherent percept.
We are interested in the question of multisensory
integration from
various aspects: how different sensory modalities interact;
what brain
mechanisms are involved, and what computational principles
and mechanisms
govern the interactions. We probe these questions using
behavioral and
neuroimaing studies in humans, as well as mathematical
modeling.
Other topics of
interest in our laboratory are perceptual learning, and
adaptation.
Recent Papers
- Kim R., Peters M.A., Shams L., "0 + 1 > 1: how adding noninformative sound improves performance on a visual task," Psychol Sci. 2012 Jan 1;23(1):6-12. Epub 2011 Nov 29.
- Shams L., Wozny D.R., Kim R., Seitz A., "Influences of multisensory experience on subsequent unisensory processing," Front Psychol. 2011;2:264. Epub 2011 Oct 18.
- Shams L., Beierholm U.R., "Causal inference in perception," Trends Cogn Sci. 2010 Sep;14(9):425-32. Epub 2010 Aug 11. Review.
- Shams L., Kim R., "Crossmodal influences on visual perception," Phys Life Rev. 2010 Sep;7(3):269-84. Epub 2010 Apr 22. Review.
- Kim R. Seitz A., Feenstra H., Shams L., "Testing assumptions of statistical learning: is it long-term and implicit?" Neurosci Lett. 2009 Sep 18;461(2):145-9. Epub 2009 Jun 17.
- Shams L., Seitz A.R., "Benefits of multisensory learning," Trends Cogn Sci. 2008 Nov;12(11);411-7. Review.
- Wozny D.R., Beierholm U.R., Shams L., "Human trimodal perception follows optimal statistical inference," J Vis. 2008 Mar 27;8(3):24.1-11.
- Kims R.S., Seitz A.R., Shams L., "Benefits of stimulus congruency for multisensory facilitation of visual learning," PLoS One. 2008 Jan 30;3(1):e1532.
- Shams L., Ma W.J., Beierholm U., "Sound-induced flash illusion as an optimal percept," Neuroreport. 2005 Nov 28;16(17):1923-7.
- Violentyev A., Shimojo S., Shams L., "Touch-induced visual illusion," Neuroreport. 2005 Jul 13;16(10):1107-10.
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