ArticleScientific reports2017
Exposure to arousal-inducing sounds facilitates visual search.
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- Sustained attention and inhibitory control: age and sex related difference in children and adolescents using a CPT with distracting events.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Unpleasant emotion inhibits attentional focus toward a peripheral target in a visual search: an ERP study.Experimental brain research · 2024Article
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- Manipulation of phasic arousal by auditory cues is associated with subsequent changes in visual orienting to faces in infancy.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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- No sound is more distracting than the one you're trying not to hear: delayed costs of mental control of task-irrelevant neutral and emotional sounds.BMC psychology · 2022Article
- Alarm Tones, Voice Warnings, and Musical Treatments: A Systematic Review of Auditory Countermeasures for Sleep Inertia in Abrupt and Casual Awakenings.Clocks & sleep · 2020Review
- The Inferior Colliculus in Alcoholism and Beyond.Frontiers in systems neuroscience · 2020Review
- How Infants' Arousal Influences Their Visual Search.Child development · 2019Article
- Emotional response evoked by viewing facial expression pictures leads to higher temporal resolution.i-PerceptionArticle
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Abstract
Exposure to affective stimuli could enhance perception and facilitate attention via increasing alertness, vigilance, and by decreasing attentional thresholds. However, evidence on the impact of affective sounds on perception and attention is scant. Here, a novel aspect of affective facilitation of attention is studied: whether arousal induced by task-irrelevant auditory stimuli could modulate attention in a visual search. In two experiments, participants performed a visual search task with and without auditory-cues that preceded the search. Participants were faster in locating high-salient targets compared to low-salient targets. Critically, search times and search slopes decreased with increasing auditory-induced arousal while searching for low-salient targets. Taken together, these findings suggest that arousal induced by sounds can facilitate attention in a subsequent visual search. This novel finding provides support for the alerting function of the auditory system by showing an auditory-phasic alerting effect in visual attention. The results also indicate that stimulus arousal modulates the alerting effect. Attention and perception are our everyday tools to navigate our surrounding world and the current findings showing that affective sounds could influence visual attention provide evidence that we make use of affective information during perceptual processing.
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