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Overview

Ladan Shams is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research activity primarily spans the fields of Neuroscience and Psychology, focusing largely on Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. This work intersects with subfields such as Sensory Systems, Nutrition and Dietetics, and Social Psychology.

Their publication record includes contributions to various scientific journals, with frequent publication venues comprising:

  • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Brain Sciences
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
  • Neuroscience Letters

Major themes in their research include:

  • Multisensory perception and integration
  • Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Tactile and Sensory Interactions
  • Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques
  • Aesthetic Perception and Analysis

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Ladan Shams include:

  • "Bayesian causal inference: A unifying neuroscience theory" (2022), Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • "What you see is what you hear: Twenty years of research using the Sound-Induced Flash Illusion" (2020), Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • "Changing the Tendency to Integrate the Senses" (2022), Brain Sciences
  • "Crossmodal interactions in human learning and memory" (2023), Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
  • "Subliminal audio-visual temporal congruency in music videos enhances perceptual pleasure" (2022), Neuroscience Letters

Ladan Shams regularly collaborates with a group of recurring co-authors, including:

  • Ulrik Beierholm
  • Carolyn A. Murray
  • Hao-Cheng Zhu
  • Chenyang Lin
  • Aaron R. Seitz

Best Publications

  • Illusions: What you see is what you hear

    Ladan Shams;Yukiyasu Kamitani;Shinsuke Shimojo

  • Benefits of multisensory learning.

    Ladan Shams;Aaron R. Seitz

  • Causal inference in multisensory perception.

    Konrad P. Körding;Ulrik Beierholm;Wei Ji Ma;Steven Quartz

  • Visual illusion induced by sound

    Ladan Shams;Yukiyasu Kamitani;Shinsuke Shimojo

  • Sensory modalities are not separate modalities: plasticity and interactions.

    Shinsuke Shimojo;Ladan Shams

  • Sound alters activity in human V1 in association with illusory visual perception.

    S. Watkins;L. Shams;S. Tanaka;John-Dylan Haynes

  • Causal inference in perception

    Ladan Shams;Ulrik R. Beierholm

  • Sound-induced flash illusion as an optimal percept.

    Ladan Shams;Wei Ji Ma;Ulrik Beierholm

  • Distortions of subjective time perception within and across senses.

    Virginie van Wassenhove;Dean V. Buonomano;Shinsuke Shimojo;Ladan Shams

  • Perception of body ownership is driven by Bayesian sensory inference.

    Majed Samad;Albert Jin Chung;Ladan Shams

  • Sound facilitates visual learning.

    Aaron R. Seitz;Robyn Kim;Ladan Shams

  • Probability Matching as a Computational Strategy Used in Perception

    David R. Wozny;David R. Wozny;Ulrik R. Beierholm;Ladan Shams

  • Crossmodal influences on visual perception

    Ladan Shams;Robyn Kim

  • Testing assumptions of statistical learning: is it long-term and implicit?

    Robyn Kim;Aaron Seitz;Heather Feenstra;Ladan Shams

  • Sound alters visual evoked potentials in humans.

    Ladan Shams;Yukiyasu Kamitani;Samuel Thompson;Shinsuke Shimojo

  • Benefits of Stimulus Congruency for Multisensory Facilitation of Visual Learning

    Robyn S. Kim;Aaron R. Seitz;Ladan Shams

  • Biases in Visual, Auditory, and Audiovisual Perception of Space.

    Brian Odegaard;David R. Wozny;Ladan Shams

  • Recalibration of Auditory Space following Milliseconds of Cross-Modal Discrepancy

    David R. Wozny;Ladan Shams

  • Activity in human V1 follows multisensory perception.

    S. Watkins;L. Shams;Oliver Josephs;Geraint Rees;Geraint Rees

  • Early modulation of visual cortex by sound: an MEG study.

    Ladan Shams;Ladan Shams;Sunao Iwaki;Aman Chawla;Joydeep Bhattacharya

  • Human trimodal perception follows optimal statistical inference.

    David R. Wozny;Ulrik R. Beierholm;Ladan Shams

Frequent Co-Authors

Aaron R. Seitz
Aaron R. Seitz University of California, Riverside
Shinsuke Shimojo
Shinsuke Shimojo California Institute of Technology
Wei Ji Ma
Wei Ji Ma New York University
Geraint Rees
Geraint Rees University College London
Virginie van Wassenhove
Virginie van Wassenhove University of Paris-Saclay
Yukiyasu Kamitani
Yukiyasu Kamitani Kyoto University
Benjamin Thompson
Benjamin Thompson University of Waterloo
Fiona N. Newell
Fiona N. Newell Trinity College Dublin
Sahib S. Khalsa
Sahib S. Khalsa Laureate Institute for Brain Research
Mark W. Kroll
Mark W. Kroll University of Minnesota

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