In the present study, we investigated the effects of auditory numerosity and magnitude (loudness) on visual numerosity processing. Participants compared numerosities of two sequential dot arrays. The second dot array was paired with a tone array that was independent of visual comparison. The numerosity (One-tone vs. Multiple-tone) and the non-numerical magnitude of tones (loudness) were manipulated in Experiments 1 and 2, respectively. In Experiment 1, participants' inverse efficiency score (IES), that is, the quotient between response time and accuracy, was significantly smaller in the One-tone and Multiple-tone conditions than that in the No-tone condition, and linear trend analyses showed that the IES decreased with the number of tones. In Experiment 2, the IES in the Loud-tone condition was significantly smaller than that in the No-tone condition, and the IES decreased as the loudness of the tones increased. In Experiment 3, both auditory numerosity and magnitude were manipulated. For soft tones, the IES was smaller in the Multiple-tone condition than in the One-tone condition, whereas no significant difference was found between two conditions in loud tones. In sum, these findings suggest that the visual numerical representation can be spontaneously affected by the numerosity and non-numerical magnitude of stimuli from another modality.
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