Visual nudging of navigation strategies improves frequency discrimination during auditory-guided locomotion.

ABSTRACT: Perception in natural environments requires integrating multisensory inputs while navigating our surroundings. During locomotion, sensory cues such as vision and audition change coherently, providing crucial environmental information. This integration may affect perceptual thresholds due to sensory interference. Vision often dominates in multimodal contexts, overshadowing auditory information and potentially degrading audition. While traditional laboratory experiments offer controlled insights into sensory integration, they often fail to replicate the dynamic, multisensory interactions of real-world behavior. We used a naturalistic paradigm in which participants navigate an arena searching for a target guided by position-dependent auditory cues. Previous findings showed that frequency disc

SUBMITTER: Malzacher A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11963732 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature