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Audiovisual Modulation of Attention Towards Fearful Stimuli
| Content Provider | SAGE Publishing |
|---|---|
| Author | Balsters, Martijn Krahmer, Emiel Swerts, Marc Vingerhoets, Ad |
| Copyright Year | 2011 |
| Abstract | Earlier research has shown that, in a dot-probe experiment, simultaneously presented vocal utterances (one with emotional prosody, one neutral) showed faster responses to probes replacing the location of emotional prosody, indicating a cross-modal modulation of attention (Brosch et al, 2008). We designed a multimodal dot-probe experiment in which: (a) fearful and neutral face pairs were simultaneously accompanied by fearful and neutral paired vocalisations or (b) the fearful and neutral vocalisations without face pictures preceded a visual target probe. A unimodal visual block was run as a control. In addition to the expected visual-only effect, we found spatial attentional bias towards fearful vocalisations followed by a visual probe, replicating the crossmodal modulation of attention shown in the Brosch et al experiment. However, no such effects were found for audiovisual face-voice pairs. This absence of an audiovisual effect with simultaneous face-voice presentation might be the consequence of the double-conflict situation; the fuzziness of two competing stimulus presentations might have ruled out or cancelled potential attentional biases towards fearful auditory and visual information. |
| Related Links | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1068/ic776?download=true |
| Starting Page | 776 |
| ISSN | 20416695 |
| Issue Number | 8 |
| Volume Number | 2 |
| Journal | i-Perception (IPE) |
| e-ISSN | 20416695 |
| DOI | 10.1068/ic776 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Sage Publications UK |
| Publisher Date | 2011-10-01 |
| Publisher Place | London |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights Holder | © 2011 SAGE Publications |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Ophthalmology Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Artificial Intelligence Sensory Systems |
