@article{ref1,
title="Characteristic sounds make you look at target objects more quickly",
journal="Attention, perception and psychophysics",
year="2010",
author="Iordanescu, Lucica and Grabowecky, Marcia and Franconeri, Steven and Theeuwes, Jan and Suzuki, S.",
volume="72",
number="7",
pages="1736-1741",
abstract="When you are looking for an object, does hearing its characteristic sound make you find it more quickly? Our recent results supported this possibility by demonstrating that when a cat target, for example, was presented among other objects, a simultaneously presented &quot;meow&quot; sound (containing no spatial information) reduced the manual response time for visual localization of the target. To extend these results, we determined how rapidly an object-specific auditory signal can facilitate target detection in visual search. On each trial, participants fixated a specified target object as quickly as possible. The target's characteristic sound speeded the saccadic search time within 215-220 msec and also guided the initial saccade toward the target, compared with presentation of a distractor's sound or with no sound. These results suggest that object-based auditory-visual interactions rapidly increase the target object's salience in visual search.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1943-3921",
doi="10.3758/APP.72.7.1736",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/APP.72.7.1736"
}