TY - JOUR PY - 2013// TI - When what you hear influences when you see: listening to an auditory rhythm influences the temporal allocation of visual attention JO - Psychological science A1 - Miller, Jared E. A1 - Carlson, Laura A. A1 - McAuley, J. Devin SP - 11 EP - 18 VL - 24 IS - 1 N2 - The three experiments reported here demonstrated a cross-modal influence of an auditory rhythm on the temporal allocation of visual attention. In Experiment 1, participants moved their eyes to a test dot with a temporal onset that was either synchronous or asynchronous with a preceding auditory rhythm. Saccadic latencies were faster for the synchronous condition than for the asynchronous conditions. In Experiment 2, the effect was replicated in a condition in which the auditory context stopped prior to the onset of the test dot, and the effect did not occur in a condition in which auditory tones were presented at irregular intervals. Experiment 3 replicated the effect using an accuracy measure within a nontimed visual task. Together, the experiments' findings support a general entrainment perspective on attention to events over time.

Language: en

LA - en SN - 0956-7976 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956797612446707 ID - ref1 ER -