Training enhances the ability of listeners to exploit visual information for auditory scene analysis.

ABSTRACT: The ability to use temporal relationships between cross-modal cues facilitates perception and behavior. Previously we observed that temporally correlated changes in the size of a visual stimulus and the intensity in an auditory stimulus influenced the ability of listeners to perform an auditory selective attention task (Maddox, Atilgan, Bizley, & Lee, 2015). Participants detected timbral changes in a target sound while ignoring those in a simultaneously presented masker. When the visual stimulus was temporally coherent with the target sound, performance was significantly better than when the visual stimulus was temporally coherent with the masker, despite the visual stimulus conveying no task-relevant information. Here, we trained observers to detect audiovisual temporal coherence and aske

SUBMITTER: Atilgan H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7868888 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature