Maezawa Tomoki, Kiyosawa Miho, Kawahara Jun I
University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8577, Japan.
Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
Atten Percept Psychophys. 2025 Feb;87(2):498-510. doi: 10.3758/s13414-025-03023-8. Epub 2025 Feb 6.
Research on visual searching has highlighted the role of crossmodal interactions between semantically congruent visual and auditory stimuli. Typically, such sounds facilitate performance. Conversely, semantically incongruent sounds may impair visual search efficiency for action scenes, though consensus has yet to be reached. This study investigated whether interference effects occur within the action-scene search paradigm. Participants performed a search task involving four simultaneously presented video stimuli, accompanied by one of three sound conditions: sound congruent with the target, congruent with a distractor, or a control sound. Auditory interference was observed, though it was relatively weak and varied across conditions rather than being simply present or absent. The observed variability in interference effects may align with the established view that observers typically ignore semantic distractor information in goal-directed searches, except in cases where the strength of target designation is compromised. These findings offer insights into the complex interplay between auditory and visual stimuli in action scene searches, suggesting that these underlying mechanisms may also apply to other paradigms, such as those involving conventional real object searches.
视觉搜索研究突出了语义一致的视觉和听觉刺激之间跨模态交互的作用。通常情况下，此类声音会提高表现。相反，语义不一致的声音可能会损害动作场景的视觉搜索效率，不过尚未达成共识。本研究调查了在动作场景搜索范式中是否会出现干扰效应。参与者执行了一项搜索任务，任务中同时呈现四个视频刺激，并伴有三种声音条件之一：与目标一致的声音、与干扰项一致的声音或控制声音。观察到了听觉干扰，不过干扰相对较弱且因条件而异，并非简单地存在或不存在。干扰效应中观察到的变异性可能与既定观点相符，即观察者在目标导向搜索中通常会忽略语义干扰信息，除非目标指定强度受到损害的情况。这些发现为动作场景搜索中听觉和视觉刺激之间的复杂相互作用提供了见解，表明这些潜在机制也可能适用于其他范式，比如涉及传统真实物体搜索的范式。
