title: Eye-gaze and arrow cues influence elementary sound perception.
abstract: We report a novel effect in which the visual perception of eye-gaze and arrow cues change the way we perceive sound. In our experiments, subjects first saw an arrow or gazing face, and then heard a brief sound originating from one of six locations. Perceived sound origins were shifted in the direction indicated by the arrows or eye-gaze. This perceptual shift was equivalent for both arrows and gazing faces and was unaffected by facial expression, consistent with a generic, supramodal attentional influence by exogenous cues.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Green Hall, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA.
authors.forename: Jeremy I
authors.initials: JI
authors.lastname: Borjon
authors.forename: Stephen V
authors.initials: SV
authors.lastname: Shepherd
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Todorov
authors.forename: Asif A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Ghazanfar
mesh_terms: D001288:Attention; D001307:Auditory Perception; D003463:Cues; D005149:Facial Expression; D006801:Humans; D014796:Visual Perception