Auditory capture of vision: examining temporal ventriloquism.

摘要: Four experiments investigated whether irrelevant sounds can influence the perception of lights in a visual temporal order judgment task, where participants judged which two appeared first. In Experiment 1, presenting sound before first light and after second improved performance relative to baseline (sounds appearing simultaneously with lights), as if pulled further apart time. 2 ruled out an alerting explanation for this effect indicated that improvement resulted from trailing light. 3 excluded possibility leading or simultaneous were interfering revealed only had within window known support multisensory integration. 4 demonstrated intervening between led decline performance, closer together. The results suggest 'temporal ventriloquism' phenomenon analogous spatial ventriloquism.