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Tobias Brosch1, Didier Grandjean, David Sander
1Department of Psychology, University of Geneva, 40, Bd. du Pont d'Arve, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland. Tobias.Brosch@pse.unige.ch
Abstract:
Emotionally relevant stimuli are prioritized in human information processing. It has repeatedly been shown that selective spatial attention is modulated by the emotional content of a stimulus. Until now, studies investigating this phenomenon have only examined within-modality effects, most frequently using pictures of emotional stimuli to modulate visual attention. In this study, we used simultaneously presented utterances with emotional and neutral prosody as cues for a visually presented target in a cross-modal dot probe task. Response times towards targets were faster when they appeared at the location of the source of the emotional prosody. Our results show for the first time a cross-modal attentional modulation of visual attention by auditory affective prosody.
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