title: When what you hear influences when you see: listening to an auditory rhythm influences the temporal allocation of visual attention.
abstract: The three experiments reported here demonstrated a cross-modal influence of an auditory rhythm on the temporal allocation of visual attention. In Experiment 1, participants moved their eyes to a test dot with a temporal onset that was either synchronous or asynchronous with a preceding auditory rhythm. Saccadic latencies were faster for the synchronous condition than for the asynchronous conditions. In Experiment 2, the effect was replicated in a condition in which the auditory context stopped prior to the onset of the test dot, and the effect did not occur in a condition in which auditory tones were presented at irregular intervals. Experiment 3 replicated the effect using an accuracy measure within a nontimed visual task. Together, the experiments' findings support a general entrainment perspective on attention to events over time.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA. jmille39@nd.edu
authors.forename: Jared E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Miller
authors.forename: Laura A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Carlson
authors.forename: J Devin
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: McAuley
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D001288:Attention; D001307:Auditory Perception; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D011930:Reaction Time; D012438:Saccades; D013998:Time Perception