Existence of competing modality dominances

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• 作者：Christopher W. Robinson ; Marvin Chandra…
• 刊名：Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：May 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：78
• 期：4
• 页码：1104-1114
• 全文大小：532 KB
• 刊物主题：Cognitive Psychology;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1943-393X
• 卷排序：78

文摘

Approximately 40 years of research on modality dominance has shown that humans are inclined to focus on visual information when presented with compounded visual and auditory stimuli. The current paper reports a series of experiments showing evidence of both auditory and visual dominance effects. Using a behavioral oddball task, we found auditory dominance when examining response times to auditory and visual oddballs—simultaneously presenting pictures and sounds slowed down responses to visual but not auditory oddballs. However, when requiring participants to make separate responses for auditory, visual, and bimodal oddballs, auditory dominance was eliminated with a reversal to visual dominance (Experiment 2). Experiment 3 replicated auditory dominance and showed that increased task demands and asking participants to analyze cross-modal stimuli conjunctively (as opposed to disjunctively) cannot account for the reversal to visual dominance. Mechanisms underlying sensory dominance and factors that may modulate sensory dominance are discussed.KeywordsModality dominanceCross-modal processingAttention