Crossmodal exogenous orienting improves the accuracy of temporal order judgments.

Journal article

Although many studies have demonstrated that crossmodal exogenous orienting can lead to a facilitation of reaction times, the issue of whether exogenous spatial orienting also affects the accuracy of perceptual judgments has proved to be much more controversial. Here, we examined whether or not exogenous spatial attentional orienting would affect sensitivity in a temporal discrimination task. Participants judged which of the two target letters, presented on either the same or opposite sides, ...

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Authors: Santangelo, V; Spence, C

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Experimental brain research
• Volume: 194
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 577-586
• Publication date: 2009-04-01
• DOI: 10.1007/s00221-009-1734-4
• EISSN: 1432-1106
• ISSN: 0014-4819
• Language: English
• Keywords: Visual Perception; Female; Time Perception; Analysis of Variance; Adult; Auditory Perception; Male; Cues; Young Adult; Judgment; Attention; Humans; Adolescent; Orientation; Acoustic Stimulation; Photic Stimulation