Auditory selective attention is enhanced by a task-irrelevant temporally coherent visual stimulus in human listeners.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Maddox, Ross K.; Atilgan, Huriye; Bizley, Jennifer K.; Lee, Adrian KC
- Source
- eLife. 2015, p1-11. 11p.
- Subject
- *LISTENING
*SELECTIVITY (Psychology)
*HUMAN information processing
*VISUAL perception
*SOUND
- Language
- ISSN
- 2050-084X
The article presents a study aimed at examining the effect of audio-visual temporal coherence alone on selective listening that is free of linguistic confounds by presenting listeners with competing auditory streams. Findings imply that temporal cues offered by vision can help listeners choose one sound source from a mixture in everyday conditions, where listeners can often identify the source of a sound.