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Nature 408, 788 (14 December 2000) | doi:10.1038/35048669

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Illusions: What you see is what you hear

Ladan Shams1, Yukiyasu Kamitani1 & Shinsuke Shimojo1,2

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Vision is believed to dominate our multisensory perception of the world. Here we overturn this established view by showing that auditory information can qualitatively alter the perception of an unambiguous visual stimulus to create a striking visual illusion. Our findings indicate that visual perception can be manipulated by other sensory modalities.