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Benefits of Stimulus Congruency for Multisensory Facilitation of Visual Learning 1. 2. 1 Robyn S. Kim , Aaron R. Seitz , Ladan Shams * 1 Department of Psychology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, 2 Department of Psychology, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America Background. Studies of perceptual learning have largely focused on unisensory stimuli. However, multisensory interactions are ubiquitous in perception, even at early processing stages, and thus can potentially play a role in learning. Here, we examine the effect of auditory-visual congruency on visual learning. Methodology/Principle Findings. Subjects were trained over five days on a visual motion coherence detection task with either congruent audiovisual, or incongruent audiovisual stimuli. Comparing performance on visual-only trials, we find that training with congruent audiovisual stimuli produces significantly better learning than training with incongruent audiovisual stimuli or with only visual stimuli. Conclusions/ Significance. This advantage from stimulus congruency during training suggests that the benefits of multisensory training may result from audiovisual interactions at a perceptual rather than cognitive level. Citation: Kim RS, Seitz AR, Shams L (2008) Benefits of Stimulus Congruency for Multisensory Facilitation of Visual Learning. PLoS ONE 3(1): e1532. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001532 INTRODUCTION task-information as the congruent sound. On the other hand, if the Perceptual learning has been the subject of extensive study in facilitation occurs at a perceptual level rather than a cognitive, recent years. This type of learning is particularly interestin