Continuous, Lateralized Auditory Stimulation Biases Visual Spatial Processing.

ABSTRACT: Sounds in our environment can easily capture human visual attention. Previous studies have investigated the impact of spatially localized, brief sounds on concurrent visuospatial attention. However, little is known on how the presence of a continuous, lateralized auditory stimulus (e.g., a person talking next to you while driving a car) impacts visual spatial attention (e.g., detection of critical events in traffic). In two experiments, we investigated whether a continuous auditory stream presented from one side biases visual spatial attention toward that side. Participants had to either passively or actively listen to sounds of various semantic complexities (tone pips, spoken digits, and a spoken story) while performing a visual target discrimination task. During both passive and active l

SUBMITTER: Pomper U 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7325992 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature