Auditory stimuli degrade visual performance in virtual reality

Malpica, Sandra (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Serrano, Ana (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Gutiérrez, Diego (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Masia, Belén (Universidad de Zaragoza)

Resumen: We report an auditory effect of visual performance degradation in a virtual reality (VR) setting, where the viewing conditions are significantly different from previous studies. With the presentation of temporally congruent but spatially incongruent sound, we can degrade visual performance significantly at detection and recognition levels. We further show that this effect is robust to different types and locations of both auditory and visual stimuli. We also analyze participants behavior with an eye tracker to study the underlying cause of the degradation effect. We find that the performance degradation occurs even in the absence of saccades towards the sound source, during normal gaze behavior. This suggests that this effect is not caused by oculomotor phenomena, but rather by neural interactions or attentional shifts.

Idioma: Inglés

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-69135-3

Año: 2020

Publicado en: Scientific reports (Nature Publishing Group) 10, 1 (2020), 12363 [9 pp.]
ISSN: 2045-2322

Factor impacto JCR: 4.379 (2020)

Categ. JCR: MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES rank: 17 / 72 = 0.236 (2020) - Q1 - T1

Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 1.24 - Multidisciplinary (Q1)

Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/682080/EU/Intuitive editing of visual appearance from real-world datasets/CHAMELEON
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/TIN2016-78753-P
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/TIN2016-79710-P

Tipo y forma: Article (Published version)

Área (Departamento): Área Lenguajes y Sistemas Inf. (Dpto. Informát.Ingenie.Sistms.)