Individuals who scored as having the most vivid imagery (lowest VVI scores) were also the individuals who benefited most from hearing auditory labels, r(18) = −.490, p = .033 (VVQ data from one subject were missing due to experimenter error).
The results of Experiment 4 indicate that hearing a verbal cue enhances detection of the named object even if its exact position is unknown, suggesting that the effect induced by the auditory labels has a degree of position invariance.
This study involved recording the electroencephalogram (EEG) while participants attended to a series of pictures of familiar objects and animals in an auditory labelling context.
The auditory labeling tasks were presented to the children in a computer game format on a laptop in a quiet room in the nursery/school.
The auditory labeled line for courtship hearing begins with fru M -expressing JONs and second-order auditory neurons aPN1/aLN al) in the AMMC (Manoli et al., 2005; Stockinger et al., 2005; Vaughan et al., 2014).
Non-music control (labelled 'Control': red line), music audio-playlist groups (irrespective of rhythmic auditory stimulation) (labelled 'Playlist': green line).
This result further supports the hypothesis that auditory verbal labels have a facilitatory effect on the subsequent visual detection of single objects matching the verbal label.
These results are compatible with an account in which auditory verbal labels modulate lower-level visual processing.
The present work is thus the first to show that auditory object labels can improve detection sensitivity of a basic visual process.
The process of Hebbian association between sensory motor patterns (see Section 2.1) was simulated in the network through repeated simultaneous activation of pre-determined sets of cells in Area 1 (the primary auditory cortex, labelled A1 in Fig. 3a) and Area 6 (primary motor cortex, M1 in Fig. 3a).
