Multisensory cues capture spatial attention regardless of perceptual load.

Journal article

We compared the ability of auditory, visual, and audiovisual (bimodal) exogenous cues to capture visuo-spatial attention under conditions of no load versus high perceptual load. Participants had to discriminate the elevation (up vs. down) of visual targets preceded by either unimodal or bimodal cues under conditions of high perceptual load (in which they had to monitor a rapidly presented central stream of visual letters for occasionally presented target digits) or no perceptual load (in whic...

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Authors: Santangelo, V; Spence, C

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance
• Volume: 33
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 1311-1321
• Publication date: 2007-12-01
• DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.33.6.1311
• EISSN: 1939-1277
• ISSN: 0096-1523
• Language: English
• Keywords: Adult; Male; Psychomotor Performance; Psychophysics; Humans; Female; Cues; Orientation; Memory, Short-Term; Pattern Recognition, Visual; Sound Localization; Discrimination (Psychology); Reaction Time; Auditory Perception; Attention