Do Congruent Auditory Stimuli Facilitate Visual Search in Dynamic Environments? An Experimental Study Based on Multisensory Interaction

What is it about?

This study conducted a visual search experiment to investigate whether auditory information could facilitate the visual search time in a dynamic environment. According to the results, searching for a target with target-congruent auditory stimuli in a dynamic environment is faster than in a static environment. In addition, using target-congruent auditory in a visual search task could inhibit horizontal visual search behavior. This study further reported that auditory stimuli could not improve visual search for target orientation of 0° or 180°. The current findings could provide suggestions for developing multisensory interactions with head-mounted displays. Users wearing these devices are allowed to be mobile, and their surroundings are dynamic, which using contexts are different from visually searching a moving target within a specific range.

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