A common source of attention for auditory and visual tracking.

ABSTRACT: Tasks that require tracking visual information reveal the severe limitations of our capacity to attend to multiple objects that vary in time and space. Although these limitations have been extensively characterized in the visual domain, very little is known about tracking information in other sensory domains. Does tracking auditory information exhibit characteristics similar to those of tracking visual information, and to what extent do these two tracking tasks draw on the same attention resources? We addressed these questions by asking participants to perform either single or dual tracking tasks from the same (visual-visual) or different (visual-auditory) perceptual modalities, with the difficulty of the tracking tasks being manipulated across trials. The results revealed that performing

SUBMITTER: Fougnie D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6061001 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature