When in a highly stimulating environment you need to quickly determine if specific visual and auditory inputs are related.
The faster and more accurately you determine the relationship between these two sensory stimuli (visual and auditory) the faster you can engage the target.
“Failure to correctly identify whether multisensory events occur simultaneously and their sequential order can lead to inaccurate representations of the physical world [and] poor decision-making…” [1]
What I’m describing is called the audiovisual temporal binding window. It is a processing capability of the brain. You want your temporal binding window to be as fast (short) as possible.
To train this capability for performance, identify a specific auditory and visual chaos scenario you’re likely to encounter.
Identify the simultaneous auditory and visual inputs that you will engage with, and those you must filter out.
Then its just a matter of putting in the reps and gradually increasing the amount of extraneous chaos that doesn’t require your attention, while keeping the speed of your target acquisition and engagement as fast as possible.
You perform under multisensory chaos. Training audiovisual temporal binding window performance increases your situational awareness capability and allows for faster and more accurate target acquisition and engagement.
References:
- Wise, A., & Barnett-Cowan, M. (2018). Perceived simultaneity and temporal order of audiovisual events following concussion. Frontiers in human neuroscience, 139.