Competition between auditory and visual spatial cues during visual task performance |
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Authors: | Thomas Koelewijn Adelbert Bronkhorst and Jan Theeuwes |
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Institution: | (1) Cognitive Psychology, Vrije Universiteit, van der Boechorststraat 1, 1081 BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands;(2) TNO Human Factors, Soesterberg, The Netherlands |
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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. |
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Keywords: | Crossmodal Attentional capture Spatial cues Exogenous |
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