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Welcome to the
Sensory Perception Lab

Our research focuses on how individuals perceive the world around them, and particularly interested in multisensory integration, or how individuals combine information across the senses. Additionally, we study how individuals use this multisensory information to perform high-level cognitive operations such as speech perception and communication.

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Our Research Focuses

Our work includes four active lines of research:

  1. Basic research in multisensory integration and perception

  2. How multisensory perceptual abilities develops across the lifespan

  3. The relationship between sensory processing and cognitive function

  4. Differences in perception in clinical populations including, but not limited to, autism spectrum disorder, cochlear implant users, schizophrenia, and ADHD, and how these differences affect symptomatology

We study these concepts at both the behavioural and neural level. To do this, we approach the topic from multiple perspectives, using behavioural psychophysical tasks, eye tracking, advanced neuroimaging techniques (fMRI, EEG, and TMS), and qualitative measures, including neuropsychological testing and questionnaires.

News & Events

Latest Publications

Hu, A., Parks, K. M. A., Schulz, S. E., Larmer, S., Batterink, L., & Stevenson, R. A. (2026). Modality-specific consolidation shapes long-term retention in statistical learning. Psychological Research, 90(113).

A new study tested young adults across auditory, visual, and audiovisual tasks and found that while multiple senses give a robust learning advantage, our brains use separate, sense-specific pathways to store those memories over a 24-hour period.

At both immediate and 24-hour tests, combining sights and sounds gave a major boost to memory, though only sound-based patterns improved overnight after sleep. This suggests that while multisensory input maximizes long-term retention, the way our brains process and consolidate those patterns is specific to each individual sense.

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