The Suppression of Reflexive Visual and Auditory Orienting when Attention Is Otherwise Engaged

Autor/inn/en	Santangelo, Valerio; Olivetti Belardinelli, Marta; Spence, Charles
Titel	The Suppression of Reflexive Visual and Auditory Orienting when Attention Is Otherwise Engaged
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 33 (2007) 1, S.137-148 (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0096-1523
Schlagwörter	Prompting; Visual Perception; Auditory Perception; Attention Control; Spatial Ability; Inhibition; Psychological Studies; Intermode Differences; Experimental Programs + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Benutzerführung; Visuelle Wahrnehmung; Auditive Wahrnehmung; Akustische Wahrnehmung; Akustik; Aufmerksamkeitstest; Räumliches Vorstellungsvermögen; Hemmung; Erprobungsprogramm
Abstract	Two experiments were conducted to examine whether abrupt onsets are capable of reflexively capturing attention when they occur outside the current focus of spatial attention, as would be expected if exogenous orienting operates in a truly automatic fashion. The authors established a highly focused attentional state by means of the central presentation of a stream of visual or auditory characters, which participants sometimes had to monitor. No intramodal reflexive cuing effects were observed in either audition or vision when participants performed either an exogenous visual or auditory orthogonal cuing task together with the central focused attention task. These results suggest that reflexive unimodal orienting is not truly automatic. The fact that cuing effects were eliminated under both unimodal and cross-modal conditions is consistent with the view that auditory and visual reflexive spatial orienting are controlled by a common underlying neural substrate. (Author).
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