Biological motion is perceived as faster with shorter auditory time intervals (opens in new tab)

Perceptual experience is continuously refined by crossmodal interactions in time. Prior research shows that auditory timing can modulate the perceived speed of visual motion with simple stimuli (e.g., flashes, clicks). It remains unknown whether such temporal interactions extend to complex, socially meaningful motion, where timing carries biological significance. Here, we investigated whether auditory timing affects the perceived speed of human locomotion depicted by point-light walkers (PLWs...