The role of crossmodal competition and dimensional overlap in crossmodal attention switching |
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Authors: | Magali Kreutzfeldt Denise N Stephan Walter Sturm Klaus Willmes Iring Koch |
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Institution: | 1. Institute of Psychology, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany;2. Department of Neurology—Section Neuropsychology, Medical Faculty, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany |
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Abstract: | Crossmodal selective attention was investigated in a cued task switching paradigm using bimodal visual and auditory stimulation. A cue indicated the imperative modality. Three levels of spatial S–R associations were established following perceptual (location), structural (numerical), and conceptual (verbal) set-level compatibility. In Experiment 1, participants switched attention between the auditory and visual modality either with a spatial-location or spatial-numerical stimulus set. In the spatial-location set, participants performed a localization judgment on left vs. right presented stimuli, whereas the spatial-numerical set required a magnitude judgment about a visually or auditorily presented number word. Single-modality blocks with unimodal stimuli were included as a control condition. In Experiment 2, the spatial-numerical stimulus set was replaced by a spatial-verbal stimulus set using direction words (e.g., “left”). RT data showed modality switch costs, which were asymmetric across modalities in the spatial-numerical and spatial-verbal stimulus set (i.e., larger for auditory than for visual stimuli), and congruency effects, which were asymmetric primarily in the spatial-location stimulus set (i.e., larger for auditory than for visual stimuli). This pattern of effects suggests task-dependent visual dominance. |
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Keywords: | Crossmodal selective attention Modality switch costs Congruency effect Visual dominance Dimensional overlap |
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