Editorial: From Perception to Action: The Role of Auditory and Visual Information in Perceiving and Performing Complex Movements

In this introduction to the research topic "From Perception to Action. The Role of Auditory and Visual Information in Perceiving and Performing Complex Movements", we would like to thank all the contributors for their valuable efforts. In addition, we are extremely grateful to the reviewers for their constructive comments and for helping us to improve the overall quality of the articles of this special issue. Finally, we thank the staff of the editorial office for their advice in the management of the review process and for their technical support.This article collection extends our knowledge on the influence of sensory information on the perception and execution of movements, with a special focus on movement-related auditory and visual information.In recent years, the role of auditory information in complex movements has been largely studied, in terms of how sounds can affect movement execution (e.g., Bailey et al., 2018;Murgia et al., 2018;Pizzera et al., 2017;Thaut, McIntosh, & Hoemberg, 2015) and of how biological motion perception is affected by sounds (e.g., Allerdissen et al., 2017;Camponogara et al., 2017;Murgia et al., 2017;Sors et al. 2018). In our research topic, we include several contributions both on perception and motor execution, using in some cases purely auditory stimuli or combining/comparing auditory and visual stimuli. Interestingly, the contributions to this line of research cover a relative wide range of domains (sports, rehabilitation, music, and dance), providing readers with a quite large overview of applications of these studies.As for the visual modality, there is a quite large body of research on the role of visual information on the perception of other's movement, with applications in sport anticipation (Williams & Jackson, 2019), perceptual training (Abernethy et al., 2012), and interpersonal coordination dynamics (Nalepka et al., 2017;Travassos et al., 2011). In this special issue, we host contributions which provide new knowledge in these fields, showing empirical findings deriving 3 from a quite large variety of paradigms and research methods (e.g., point-light displays, spatial and temporal occlusions, virtual reality, eye tracking).The articles of this collection are grouped in four sections.The first contribution of this section is a review by Schaffert et al., concerns the effects of loud music in sports, and in particular on ergometer exercise. The authors investigate the effects of electronic music at different intensity levels on ergometer performance, perceived fatigue and heart rate in university students with relatively high and low levels of training.This section includes those contributions examining the effects of auditory and visual cues (either compared or combined) on movement or imagery. The study by Bieńkiewicz et al.investigates whether auditory and visual cues regarding the kinematic of experts can enhance motor learning in golf, demonstrating that both auditory and visual cues can be beneficial for The last section of this special issue is dedicated to original studies on interpersonal coordination, interactions among actors, and perception of others' point of view. The first contribution of this section is by Hwang et al., who investigate how social coupling between two individuals can emerge in a collaborative task, when different perceptual information is available, combining visual information with different types of auditory feedback. The next study by van Opstal et al. focuses on the investigation of interception. In particular, the authors study how 6 teams of two players of different skill level intercept approaching balls in the doubles-pong task.The third study of this section is by Meerhoff et al., who focus on collision avoidance. In their study, the authors examine the strategies of dyadic avoidance compared to triadic avoidance, and how the dynamics of a passable gap between two walkers affect locomotor interactions. Finally, the last contribution of this section (and of the entire article collection) is by Cook et al.. In this study, the authors investigate the influence of naturally produced virtual motion on postural regulation, and examine how people respond to different types of optical flow produced by other people.As editors, we are fully satisfied with this collection of articles and are convinced that most of them will have a high impact on research in this field. We hope that these works will stimulate new ideas, and contribute to the development of research on the mutual influences between auditory and visual perception and complex movements.

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   Neurobiological foundations of neurologic music therapy: rhythmic entrainment and the motor system · 2015

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