ArticleFrontiers in psychology2019
Characteristic Sounds Facilitate Object Search in Real-Life Scenes.
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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- Task irrelevant sounds influence visual attention through graded crossmodal semantic modulation.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2026Article
- Differential effects of top-down crossmodal attention on subjective timing of semantic and syntactic violations.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Crossmodal semantic congruence and rarity improve episodic memory.Memory & cognition · 2025Article
- Crossmodal semantic congruence guides spontaneous orienting in real-life scenes.Psychological research · 2024Article
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- Cross-modal enhancement of spatially unpredictable visual target discrimination during the attentional blink.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2023Article
- Working memory load modulates the processing of audiovisual distractors: A behavioral and event-related potentials study.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2023Article
- Auditory enhancement of visual searches for event scenes.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2022Article
- Crossmodal Semantic Congruence Interacts with Object Contextual Consistency in Complex Visual Scenes to Enhance Short-Term Memory Performance.Brain sciences · 2021Article
- Characteristic Sounds Facilitate Object Search in Real-Life Scenes.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
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Abstract
Real-world events do not only provide temporally and spatially correlated information across the senses, but also semantic correspondences about object identity. Prior research has shown that object sounds can enhance detection, identification, and search performance of semantically consistent visual targets. However, these effects are always demonstrated in simple and stereotyped displays that lack ecological validity. In order to address identity-based cross-modal relationships in real-world scenarios, we designed a visual search task using complex, dynamic scenes. Participants searched for objects in video clips recorded from real-life scenes. Auditory cues, embedded in the background sounds, could be target-consistent, distracter-consistent, neutral, or just absent. We found that, in these naturalistic scenes, characteristic sounds improve visual search for task-relevant objects but fail to increase the salience of irrelevant distracters. Our findings generalize previous results on object-based cross-modal interactions with simple stimuli and shed light upon how audio-visual semantically congruent relationships play out in real-life contexts.
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