TY - JOUR
T1 - Characteristic sounds make you look at target objects more quickly
AU - Iordanescu, Lucica
AU - Grabowecky, Marcia
AU - Franconeri, Steven
AU - Theeuwes, Jan
AU - Suzuki, Satoru
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by National Institutes of Health Grant R01 EY018197 and National Science Foundation Grant BCS0643191.
PY - 2010/10
Y1 - 2010/10
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.3758/APP.72.7.1736
DO - 10.3758/APP.72.7.1736
M3 - Article
C2 - 20952773
AN - SCOPUS:77958469841
VL - 72
SP - 1736
EP - 1741
JO - Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics
JF - Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics
SN - 1943-3921
IS - 7
ER -