@article{Rummukainen_Mendonça_2016, title={Task-relevant spatialized auditory cues enhance attention orientation and peripheral target detection in natural scenes}, volume={9}, url={https://bop.unibe.ch/JEMR/article/view/2432}, DOI={10.16910/jemr.9.1.4}, abstractNote={Concurrent auditory stimuli have been shown to enhance detection of abstract visual targets in experimental setups with little ecological validity. We presented 11 participants, wearing an eye-tracking device, with a visual detection task in an immersive audiovisual environment replicating a real-world environment. The participants were to fixate on a visual target and to press a key when they were confident of having detected the target. The visual world was accompanied by a task-relevant or task-irrelevant spatialized sound scene with different onset asynchronies. Our findings indicate task-relevant auditory cues to aid in orienting to and detecting a peripheral but not central visual target. The enhancement is amplified with an increasing amount of audio lead.}, number={1}, journal={Journal of Eye Movement Research}, author={Rummukainen, Olli and Mendonça, Catarina}, year={2016}, month={Jan.} }