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

Olli Rummukainen; Catarina Macedo Mendonca Hiipakka

doi:10.16910/jemr.9.1.4

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

Olli Rummukainen^*
, Catarina Macedo Mendonca Hiipakka

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Article number	4
Number of pages	10
Journal	Journal of Eye Movement Research
Volume	9
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.16910/jemr.9.1.4
Publication status	Published - 2016
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

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The research leading to these results has received funding from the Academy of Finland (decision no [266239]) and from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant no [659114].

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natural scene
attention
detection
eye tracking
spatial sound
FACILITATION

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