TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2010//
TI  - Characteristic sounds make you look at target objects more quickly
JO  - Attention, perception and psychophysics
A1  - Iordanescu, Lucica
A1  - Grabowecky, Marcia
A1  - Franconeri, Steven
A1  - Theeuwes, Jan
A1  - Suzuki, S.
SP  - 1736
EP  - 1741
VL  - 72
IS  - 7
N2  - 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 "meow" 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1943-3921
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/APP.72.7.1736
ID  - ref1
ER  -