Eye movements have been extensively studied with respect to visual stimulation. However, we live in a multisensory world, and how the eyes are driven by other senses has been explored much less. Here, we review the evidence on how audition can trigger and drive different eye responses and which cortical and subcortical neural correlates are involved. We provide an overview on how different types of sounds, from simple tones and noise bursts to spatially localized sounds and complex linguistic stimuli, influence saccades, microsaccades, smooth pursuit, pupil dilation, and eye blinks. The reviewed evidence reveals how the auditory system interacts with the oculomotor system, both behaviorally and neurally, and how this differs from visually driven eye responses. Some evidence points to multisensory interaction, and potential multisensory integration, but the underlying computational and neural mechanisms are still unclear. While there are marked differences in how the eyes respond to auditory compared to visual stimuli, many aspects of auditory-evoked eye responses remain underexplored, and we summarize the key open questions for future research.

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眼睛如何对声音做出反应

关于视觉刺激的眼球运动已被广泛研究。然而，我们生活在一个多感官的世界，人们对眼睛如何受其他感官驱动的探索要少得多。在这里，我们回顾了有关听力如何触发和驱动不同的眼睛反应以及涉及哪些皮层和皮层下神经相关因素的证据。我们概述了不同类型的声音（从简单的音调和噪声突发到空间局部声音和复杂的语言刺激）如何影响扫视、微扫视、平滑追踪、瞳孔扩张和眨眼。审查的证据揭示了听觉系统如何与动眼系统在行为和神经方面相互作用，以及这与视觉驱动的眼睛反应有何不同。一些证据表明多感官相互作用和潜在的多感官整合，但潜在的计算和神经机制仍不清楚。虽然与视觉刺激相比，眼睛对听觉刺激的反应存在显着差异，但听觉诱发的眼睛反应的许多方面仍未得到充分探索，我们总结了未来研究的关键开放问题。