Capturing spatial attention with multisensory cues.

@article{citeulike:2892419, abstract = {We assessed the influence ofmultisensory interactions on the exogenous orienting of spatial attention by comparing the ability of auditory, tactile, and audiotactile exogenous cues to capture visuospatial attention under conditions of no perceptual load versus high perceptual load. In Experiment 1, participants discriminated the elevation of visual targets preceded by either unimodal or bimodal cues under conditions of either a high perceptual load (involving the monitoring of a rapidly presented central stream of visual letters for occasionally presented target digits) or no perceptual load (when the central stream was replaced by a fixation point). All of the cues captured spatial attention in the no-load condition, whereas only the bimodal cues captured visuospatial attention in the high-load condition. In Experiment 2, we ruled out the possibility that the presentation of any changing stimulus at fixation (i.e., a passively monitored stream of letters) would eliminate exogenous orienting, which instead appears to be a consequence of high perceptual load conditions (Experiment 1). These results demonstrate that multisensory cues capture spatial attention more effectively than unimodal cues under conditions of concurrent perceptual load.}, address = {University of Oxford, Oxford, England. valerio.santangelo@uniroma1.it}, author = {Santangelo, V. and Ho, C. and Spence, C. }, citeulike-article-id = {2892419}, issn = {1069-9384}, journal = {Psychonomic bulletin \& review}, keywords = {attention, auditory, kristina, vision}, month = {April}, number = {2}, pages = {398--403}, posted-at = {2008-06-13 20:01:07}, priority = {2}, title = {Capturing spatial attention with multisensory cues.}, url = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18488658}, volume = {15}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2892419 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2892419 TI - Capturing spatial attention with multisensory cues. JF - Psychonomic bulletin & review VL - 15 IS - 2 SP - 398 EP - 403 AD - University of Oxford, Oxford, England. valerio.santangelo@uniroma1.it SN - 1069-9384 N2 - We assessed the influence ofmultisensory interactions on the exogenous orienting of spatial attention by comparing the ability of auditory, tactile, and audiotactile exogenous cues to capture visuospatial attention under conditions of no perceptual load versus high perceptual load. In Experiment 1, participants discriminated the elevation of visual targets preceded by either unimodal or bimodal cues under conditions of either a high perceptual load (involving the monitoring of a rapidly presented central stream of visual letters for occasionally presented target digits) or no perceptual load (when the central stream was replaced by a fixation point). All of the cues captured spatial attention in the no-load condition, whereas only the bimodal cues captured visuospatial attention in the high-load condition. In Experiment 2, we ruled out the possibility that the presentation of any changing stimulus at fixation (i.e., a passively monitored stream of letters) would eliminate exogenous orienting, which instead appears to be a consequence of high perceptual load conditions (Experiment 1). These results demonstrate that multisensory cues capture spatial attention more effectively than unimodal cues under conditions of concurrent perceptual load. KW - attention KW - auditory KW - kristina KW - vision AU - Santangelo, V AU - Ho, C AU - Spence, C PY - 2008/04// UR - http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18488658 ER -