Sound enhances visual perception: Cross-modal effects of auditory organization on vision

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作者
Vroomen, J [1 ]
de Gelder, B [1 ]
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[1] Tilburg Univ, Dept Psychol, NL-5000 LE Tilburg, Netherlands
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10.1037/0096-1523.26.5.1583
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B84 [心理学];
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04 ; 0402 ;
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Six experiments demonstrated cross-modal influences from the auditory modality on the visual modality at an early level of perceptual organization. Participants had to detect a visual target in a rapidly changing sequence of visual distracters. A high tone embedded in a sequence of low tones improved detection of a synchronously presented visual target (Experiment 1), but the effect disappeared when the high tone was presented before the target (Experiment 2). Rhythmically based or order-based anticipation was unlikely to account for the effect because the improvement was unaffected by whether there was jitter (Experiment 3) or a random number of distracters between successive targets (Experiment 4). The facilitatory effect was greatly reduced when the tone was less abrupt and part of a melody (Experiments 5 and 6). These results show that perceptual organization in the auditory modality can have an effect on perceptibility in the visual modality.
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页码:1583 / 1590
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