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Are auditory cues special? Evidence from cross-modal distractor-induced blindness.
| Content Provider | Europe PMC |
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| Author | Kern, Lea Niedeggen, Michael |
| Abstract | A target that shares features with preceding distractor stimuli is less likely to be detected due to a distractor-driven activation of a negative attentional set. This transient impairment in perceiving the target (distractor-induced blindness/deafness) can be found within vision and audition. Recently, the phenomenon was observed in a cross-modal setting involving an auditory target and additional task-relevant visual information (cross-modal distractor-induced deafness). In the current study, consisting of three behavioral experiments, a visual target, indicated by an auditory cue, had to be detected despite the presence of visual distractors. Multiple distractors consistently led to reduced target detection if cue and target appeared in close temporal proximity, confirming cross-modal distractor-induced blindness. However, the effect on target detection was reduced compared to the effect of cross-modal distractor-induced deafness previously observed for reversed modalities. The physical features defining cue and target could not account for the diminished distractor effect in the current cross-modal task. Instead, this finding may be attributed to the auditory cue acting as an especially efficient release signal of the distractor-induced inhibition. Additionally, a multisensory enhancement of visual target detection by the concurrent auditory signal might have contributed to the reduced distractor effect.Supplementary InformationThe online version contains supplementary material available at 10.3758/s13414-022-02540-0. |
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| ISSN | 19433921 |
| Journal | Attention, Perception & Psychophysics [Atten Percept Psychophys] |
| Volume Number | 85 |
| DOI | 10.3758/s13414-022-02540-0 |
| PubMed Central reference number | PMC10066119 |
| Issue Number | 3 |
| PubMed reference number | 35902451 |
| e-ISSN | 1943393X |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Springer US |
| Publisher Date | 2022-07-28 |
| Publisher Place | New York |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights License | Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. © The Author(s) 2022 |
| Subject Keyword | Distractor-induced blindness Attention Cross-modal perception Inhibition Multisensory enhancement |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Sensory Systems Linguistics and Language |
