Title
Competition between auditory and visual spatial cues during visual task performance
Author
Koelewijn, T.
Bronkhorst, A.
Theeuwes, J.
TNO Defensie en Veiligheid
Publication year
2009
Abstract
There is debate in the crossmodal cueing literature as to whether capture of visual attention by means of sound is a fully automatic process. Recent studies show that when visual attention is endogenously focused sound still captures attention. The current study investigated whether there is interaction between exogenous auditory and visual capture. Participants preformed an orthogonal cueing task, in which, the visual target was preceded by both a peripheral visual and auditory cue. When both cues were presented at chance level, visual and auditory capture was observed. However, when the validity of the visual cue was increased to 80% only visual capture and no auditory capture was observed. Furthermore, a highly predictive (80% valid) auditory cue was not able to prevent visual capture. These results demonstrate that crossmodal auditory capture does not occur when a competing predictive visual event is presented and is therefore not a fully automatic process.
Subject
Psychology
Attentional capture
Crossmodal
Exogenous
Spatial cues
adolescent
adult
article
association
auditory discrimination
controlled study
directional hearing
female
human
human experiment
male
normal human
priority journal
selective attention
spatial discrimination
spatial orientation
task performance
visual discrimination
visual information
Acoustic Stimulation
Adolescent
Adult
Attention
Auditory Perception
Brain
Cues
Feedback
Female
Humans
Male
Neuropsychological Tests
Photic Stimulation
Psychometrics
Psychomotor Performance
Space Perception
Visual Perception
Young Adult
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-009-1829-y
TNO identifier
181026
ISSN
0014-4819
Source
Experimental Brain Research, 195 (4), 593-602
Document type
article