Does crossmodal correspondence modulate the facilitatory effect of auditory cues on visual search?

Journal article

The "pip-and-pop effect" refers to the facilitation of search for a visual target (a horizontal or vertical bar whose color changes frequently) among multiple visual distractors (tilted bars also changing color unpredictably) by the presentation of a spatially uninformative auditory cue synchronized with the color change of the visual target. In the present study, the visual stimuli in the search display changed brightness instead of color, and the crossmodal congruency between the pitch of t...

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Authors: Klapetek, A; Ngo, M; Spence, C

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Attention, perception and psychophysics
• Volume: 74
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 1154-1167
• Publication date: 2012-08-01
• DOI: 10.3758/s13414-012-0317-9
• EISSN: 1943-393X
• ISSN: 1943-3921
• Language: English
• Keywords: Infant; Cues; Male; Psychophysics; Female; Color Perception; Child; Orientation; Pitch Perception; Attention; Discrimination (Psychology); Young Adult; Pattern Recognition, Visual; Humans; Adult; Reaction Time; Contrast Sensitivity; Middle Aged