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Multisensory prior entry.

C Spence1, D I Shore, R M Klein

  • 1Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, England. charles.spence@psy.ox.ac.uk

Journal of Experimental Psychology. General
|January 5, 2002
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Attending to a sensory modality, like vision, speeds perception of stimuli in that modality. This study provides strong evidence for multisensory prior entry, influencing temporal order judgments (TOJs).

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Sensory Perception

Background:

  • The impact of sensory attention on stimulus perception remains debated despite extensive research.
  • Previous studies often suffer from methodological limitations, hindering definitive conclusions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the effects of attending to specific sensory modalities or spatial locations on perception.
  • To provide robust evidence for or against the phenomenon of multisensory prior entry.

Main Methods:

  • Four experiments utilized a novel methodology to assess temporal order judgments (TOJs).
  • Participants judged the order of visual and tactile stimuli presented at varying onset asynchronies.
  • Stimuli were presented to the left and/or right sides of space.

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Main Results:

  • The findings offer the strongest evidence to date supporting multisensory prior entry.
  • Attentional biases favoring the visual modality were observed.
  • A bias toward stimuli presented on the right side of space was also confirmed.

Conclusions:

  • Sensory attention demonstrably influences the speed of stimulus perception, supporting prior entry.
  • These results have significant implications for understanding human and animal cognition and sensory processing.