Task-relevant spatialized auditory cues enhance attention orientation and peripheral target detection in natural scenes

Journal of Eye Movement Research

卷:9

Catarina Mendonça¹  Olli Rummukainen¹ 

[1] Aalto University, Espoo, Finland;

关键词: natural scene;    attention;    detection;    eye tracking;    spatial sound;   

DOI  :  10.16910/jemr.9.1.4

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Concurrent auditory stimuli have been shown to enhance detection of abstract visual targets in experimental setups with little ecological validity. We presented 11 participants, wearing an eye-tracking device, with a visual detection task in an immersive audiovisual environment replicating a real-world environment. The participants were to fixate on a visual target and to press a key when they were confident of having detected the target. The visual world was accompanied by a task-relevant or task-irrelevant spatialized sound scene with different onset asynchronies. Our findings indicate task-relevant auditory cues to aid in orienting to and detecting a peripheral but not central visual target. The enhancement is amplified with an increasing amount of audio lead.

【 授权许可】

Unknown