Influences of auditory stimuli in front and rear space on visual detection: An event-related potential study

Weiping Yang, Qi Li, Tatsuya Ochi, Jingjing Yang, Yulin Gao, Xiaoyu Tang, Satoshi Takahashi, Jinglong Wu

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Abstract

Although many previous studies have investigated location of modalities could affect detection to the task, whether auditory stimuli in the rear space could influence visual detection remain unclear. Therefore, we designed a visual detection task that included visual stimuli which were presented in front of the participants, auditory stimuli which were presented at one location in an equidistant horizontal plane at the front (0°, the fixation point), right (90°), rear (180°), or left (270°) of the participants, and audiovisual stimuli that both visual stimuli and auditory stimuli from one speaker of the four locations were simultaneously presented. The task of participants is to attend to the visual stimulus and respond promptly only to visual target stimuli (unimodal visual target stimulus and visual target of audiovisual stimulus). We found that auditory stimuli in both the front and rear space could enhance visual detection. Moreover, main event-related potential (ERP) components which influences of auditory stimuli on visual detection were found: (1) over the right occipital area, approximately 160-200 milliseconds, when auditory stimuli were presented in front space; (2) over the parieto-occipital area, approximately 360-400 milliseconds, when auditory stimuli were presented in both front and rear space. Our results confirmed that even though auditory stimuli were presented at rear of the subject, auditory stimuli also could influence visual cognitive in the visual detection task.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2013 ICME International Conference on Complex Medical Engineering, CME 2013
Pages7-12
Number of pages6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013
Externally publishedYes
Event2013 7th ICME International Conference on Complex Medical Engineering, CME 2013 - Beijing, China
Duration: 25 May 201328 May 2013

Publication series

Name2013 ICME International Conference on Complex Medical Engineering, CME 2013

Conference

Conference2013 7th ICME International Conference on Complex Medical Engineering, CME 2013
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period25/05/1328/05/13

Keywords

  • ERP
  • auditory stimuli
  • rear space
  • visual detection

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