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The multisensory nature of spatial attention :
Crossmodal change blindness between vision,
touch and audition| old_uid | 3941 |
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| title | The multisensory nature of spatial attention :
Crossmodal change blindness between vision,
touch and audition |
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| start_date | 2008/01/28 |
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| schedule | 16h15 |
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| online | no |
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| details | précédé par des "light refreshments" à 16h |
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| summary | Change detection studies have revealed a failure to detect changes between two
consecutively presented scenes, when they are separated by a distractor that masks the transients typically associated with change. This failure known as ‘change blindness’ has been reported within vision (e.g., Auvray & O’Regan, 2003; Simons, 1996), audition (Vitevitch, 2003), and touch (Gallace, Tan, & Spence, 2006). However, change blindness has never before been investigated when the stimuli are presented to different sensory modalities. In two recent studies (Auvray, Gallace, Tan, & Spence, submitted; Gallace, Auvray, Tan, & Spence,
2006), we showed that observers fail to detect positional changes between two sequentially- presented vibrotactile patterns not only when vibrotactile distractors are used to mask the change, but also when visual distractors are used instead. We subsequentely investigated change detection performance when the two to-be-compared stimulus patterns were presented to different sensory modalities (the first visual and the second tactile or vice versa). The results showed that in the absence of masking, participants detected changes in position accurately, despite the fact that the two to-be-compared displays were presented in different
sensory modalities. Furthermore, when a mask was presented between the two to-be- compared displays, crossmodal change blindness was elicited no matter whether the mask was visual or tactile (Auvray, Gallace, Tan, & Spence, 2007). These findings suggest that certain of the processes underlying change blindness are multisensory in nature. In addition, the possibility to compare spatial locations presented across different sensory modalities suggests that some spatial properties are extracted and held in an amodal format. We discuss these results in relation to recent claims regarding the crossmodal nature of spatial attention.
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Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 29, 333-342. |
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| responsibles | van Vreeswijk, Hansel |
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