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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
9
pubmed:dateCreated
2000-10-10
pubmed:abstractText
Sound localization can be affected by vision; in the ventriloquism effect, sounds that are hard to localize within hearing become mislocalized toward the location of concurrent visual events. Here we tested whether spatial attention is drawn to the illusory location of a ventriloquized sound. The study exploited our previous finding that visual cues do not attract auditory attention. We report an important exception to this rule; auditory attention can be drawn to the location of a visual cue when it is paired with a concurrent unlocalizable sound, to produce ventriloquism. This demonstrates that crossmodal integration can precede reflexive shifts of attention, with such shifts taking place toward the crossmodally determined illusory location of a sound. It also shows that ventriloquism arises automatically, with objective as well as subjective consequences.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0959-4965
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
26
pubmed:volume
11
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
2057-61
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2000
pubmed:articleTitle
Attracting attention to the illusory location of a sound: reflexive crossmodal orienting and ventriloquism.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't