Abstract
We report a novel effect in which the visual perception of eye-gaze and arrow cues change the way we perceive sound. In our experiments, subjects first saw an arrow or gazing face, and then heard a brief sound originating from one of six locations. Perceived sound origins were shifted in the direction indicated by the arrows or eye-gaze. This perceptual shift was equivalent for both arrows and gazing faces and was unaffected by facial expression, consistent with a generic, supramodal attentional influence by exogenous cues.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 1997-2004 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences |
Volume | 278 |
Issue number | 1714 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jul 7 2011 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General Immunology and Microbiology
- General Environmental Science
- General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Keywords
- Attention
- Mimicry
- Multisensory
- Perceptual contagion
- Sound localization