Attentional reorienting triggers spatial asymmetries in a search task with cross-modal spatial cueing.

ABSTRACT: Cross-modal spatial cueing can affect performance in a visual search task. For example, search performance improves if a visual target and an auditory cue originate from the same spatial location, and it deteriorates if they originate from different locations. Moreover, it has recently been postulated that multisensory settings, i.e., experimental settings, in which critical stimuli are concurrently presented in different sensory modalities (e.g., visual and auditory), may trigger asymmetries in visuospatial attention. Thereby, a facilitation has been observed for visual stimuli presented in the right compared to the left visual space. However, it remains unclear whether auditory cueing of attention differentially affects search performance in the left and the right hemifields in audio-vis

SUBMITTER: Paladini RE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5749835 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature