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Basil Wahn¹, Supriya Murali¹, Scott Sinnett²

¹Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany.

|February 17, 2017

Summary

Attentional resources are partly shared across senses, with less interference between different sensory modalities. Multisensory benefits, like improved perception with audiovisual stimuli, occur independently of attention.

Keywords:

attentional resources audition load theory multiple object tracking multisensory integration multisensory processing vision

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Psychology
Neuroscience
Sensory Perception

Background:

Limited attentional resources impact sensory information processing.
Debate exists on modality-specific attentional pools and attention's role in multisensory integration.

Purpose of the Study:

Investigate if attentional resources are modality-specific.
Determine the dependency of multisensory integration on attentional resources.

Main Methods:

Employed a dual-task paradigm combining a multiple object tracking task with a visual, auditory, or audiovisual detection task.
Stimulus intensity in the detection task was adjusted using a staircase procedure.

Main Results:

Task interference was significantly lower (approx. 50%) between separate sensory modalities compared to the same modality, indicating partly shared attentional resources.
Perceptual sensitivity improved for audiovisual stimuli versus unisensory stimuli, irrespective of attentional load.

Conclusions:

Attentional resource allocation in multisensory processing is task-dependent.
Multisensory benefits, such as enhanced audiovisual perception, are not dependent on attentional resources.