Characteristic sounds make you look at target objects more quickly

Lucica Iordanescu; Marcia Grabowecky; Steven Franconeri; Jan Theeuwes; Satoru Suzuki

doi:10.3758/APP.72.7.1736

Characteristic sounds make you look at target objects more quickly

Lucica Iordanescu, Marcia Grabowecky, Steven Franconeri, Jan Theeuwes, Satoru Suzuki^*

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Psychology

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Abstract

When you are looking for an object, does hearing its characteristic sound make you find it more quickly? Our recent results supported this possibility by demonstrating that when a cat target, for example, was presented among other objects, a simultaneously presented "meow" sound (containing no spatial information) reduced the manual response time for visual localization of the target. To extend these results, we determined how rapidly an object-specific auditory signal can facilitate target detection in visual search. On each trial, participants fixated a specified target object as quickly as possible. The target's characteristic sound speeded the saccadic search time within 215-220 msec and also guided the initial saccade toward the target, compared with presentation of a distractor's sound or with no sound. These results suggest that object-based auditory-visual interactions rapidly increase the target object's salience in visual search.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1736-1741
Number of pages	6
Journal	Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics
Volume	72
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3758/APP.72.7.1736
State	Published - Oct 2010

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Language and Linguistics
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Sensory Systems
Linguistics and Language

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