Cross-Modal Interaction Between Auditory and Visual Input Impacts Memory Retrieval.

ABSTRACT: How we perceive and learn about our environment is influenced by our prior experiences and existing representations of the world. Top-down cognitive processes, such as attention and expectations, can alter how we process sensory stimuli, both within a modality (e.g., effects of auditory experience on auditory perception), as well as across modalities (e.g., effects of visual feedback on sound localization). Here, we demonstrate that experience with different types of auditory input (spoken words vs. environmental sounds) modulates how humans remember concurrently-presented visual objects. Participants viewed a series of line drawings (e.g., picture of a cat) displayed in one of four quadrants while listening to a word or sound that was congruent (e.g., "cat" or ), incongruent (e.g.,

SUBMITTER: Marian V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8350348 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature