Eye-gaze and arrow cues influence elementary sound perception

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1714, 2011, Pages 1997-2004

  Borjon, Jeremy I ^a   Shepherd, Stephen V ^a   Todorov, Alexander ^a   Ghazanfar, Asif A ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Mimicry; Multisensory; Perceptual contagion; Sound localization

Indexed keywords

EYE; MIMICRY; SOUND PROPAGATION; VISUAL CUE;

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HEARING; HUMAN; VISION;

ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CUES; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMANS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79957652434     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.2306     Document Type: Article

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