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Frank Mast¹, Christian Frings¹, Charles Spence²

¹University of Trier, Department of Psychology, D-54286, Germany.

Acta Psychologica

|June 3, 2017

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Top-down attentional control influences multisensory selection. Even non-target features in one sense capture attention, demonstrating crossmodal contingent capture across visual and auditory processing.

Keywords:

Audition Contingent capture Crossmodal attention Multisensory Vision

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Background:

The contingent capture hypothesis suggests attentional control sets guide selection based on feature matching.
Recent findings indicate attentional control sets influence crossmodal selection, extending beyond visual processing.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate if contingent capture operates as a general principle in multisensory selection.
To test the crossmodal contingent capture hypothesis using a bimodal interference task.

Main Methods:

A non-spatial interference task involving bimodal (visual and auditory) targets and distractors.
Participants focused on a predefined target feature in one modality, while irrelevant crossmodal stimuli were presented.
Interference effects were measured based on distractor-target congruence across modalities.

Main Results:

Larger interference effects occurred when distractors matched features in both primary and secondary modalities.
This crossmodal interference was more pronounced when vision was the primary modality compared to audition.
Results support the crossmodal contingent capture hypothesis, indicating broader effects of attentional control.

Conclusions:

Attentional control sets influence multisensory selection, affecting both visual and auditory processing.
Top-down control impacts early sensory processing beyond spatial dimensions, supporting the crossmodal contingent capture hypothesis.