Neonatal localisation of a sound in visual space.
A tone was played to neonates in one of four conditions: in an unstructured visual field; spatially concordant with a single visual target; spatially discordant with a single visual target; or spatially concordant with one of two identical visual targets at different locations. Auditory-oculomotor spatial coordination, contingent on sound, was enhanced by the presence of a target in the visual field. Audition and vision are mutually supportive in auditory localisation from birth.
D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D001307:Auditory Perception; D005133:Eye Movements; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D013017:Sound Localization; D014785:Vision, Ocular / Q000502:physiology; D014794:Visual Fields