Eye-gaze and arrow cues influence elementary sound perception

Jeremy I. Borjon; Stephen V. Shepherd; Alexander Todorov; Asif A. Ghazanfar

doi:10.1098/rspb.2010.2306

Eye-gaze and arrow cues influence elementary sound perception

Jeremy I. Borjon, Stephen V. Shepherd, Alexander Todorov, Asif A. Ghazanfar

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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)
Pages (from-to)	1997-2004
Number of pages	8
Journal	Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Volume	278
Issue number	1714
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2010.2306
State	Published - Jul 7 2011

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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

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