The Interplay Between Multisensory Processing and Attention in Working Memory: Behavioral and Neural Indices of Audiovisual Object Storage.

ABSTRACT: Although real-life events are multisensory, how audio-visual objects are stored in working memory is an open question. At a perceptual level, evidence shows that both top-down and bottom-up attentional processes can play a role in multisensory interactions. To understand how attention and multisensory processes interact in working memory, we designed an audiovisual delayed match-to-sample task in which participants were presented with one or two audiovisual memory items, followed by an audiovisual probe. In different blocks, participants were instructed to either (a) attend to the auditory features, (b) attend to the visual features, or (c) attend to both auditory and visual features. Participants were instructed to indicate whether the task-relevant features of the probe matched one of th

SUBMITTER: Arslan C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11843526 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature