The auditory stimulus reduced the visual inhibition of return: Evidence from psychophysiological interaction analysis.

ABSTRACT: Visual inhibition of return (IOR) is a mechanism for preventing attention from returning to previously examined spatial locations. Previous studies have found that auditory stimuli presented simultaneously with a visual target can reduce or even eliminate the visual IOR. However, the mechanism responsible for decreased visual IOR accompanied by auditory stimuli is unclear. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we aimed to investigate how auditory stimuli reduce visual IOR. Behaviorally, we found that the visual IOR accompanying auditory stimuli was significant but smaller than the visual IOR. Neurally, only in the validly cued trials, the superior temporal gyrus showed increased neural coupling with the intraparietal sulcus, presupplementary motor area, and some other areas in audio

SUBMITTER: He Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10258538 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature