Graduate student Lorraine Chuen successfully defended her M.Sc. thesis, titled “Evaluating the influence of audiovisual unity in temporal binding of musical stimuli” and will now graduate with her Masters degree. She will soon be moving to Toronto to work at the MaRS Discovery District as a Studio [Y] Fellow.
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Dominique Beauregard Cazabon presented a poster at the Acoustical Society of America’s spring meeting. The poster was entitled “The effect of amplitude envelope on spatial ventriloquism” and presented results from a pilot study aiming to determine whether amplitude envelope affects the way we integrate audiovisual information in the spatial dimension. This is the first step in a series of experiments aimed at exploring the role of temporal structure in the spatial localization of sounds.
Fiona Manning published “Movement Enhances Perceived Timing in the Absence of Auditory Feedback” in Timing & Time Perception. This paper identifies the importance of auditory feedback as a cue for movement timing, which subsequently affects perceived timing of an external stimulus. Additionally, it demonstrated that movement alone can improve timing perception, independent of the auditory feedback caused by this movement. Click 
Fiona Manning presented a talk at the University of Waterloo Department of Kinesiology seminar series in the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences. This talk overviewed sensorimotor integration in rhythm perception, outlining Fiona’s work on enhanced perceptual benefits that are associated with synchronizing movement with external auditory stimuli.
Motor effector’s tapping rate influences movement’s effect on timing perception (Tardif, Manning & Schutz)
