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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Sensory Perception

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  • Simultaneous stimulus exposure typically leads to associations within and between sensory modalities.
  • These associations influence actions and play a role in multisensory selection.
  • Crossmodal associations learned during multisensory tasks may affect subsequent information processing.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the processing level of multisensory stimuli in multisensory selection.
  • To examine the impact of crossmodal aftereffects on information processing.
  • To differentiate between feature-based and response-based crossmodal associations.

Main Methods:

  • Induced feature or response associations in a multisensory flanker task.
  • Measured interference in a subsequent crossmodal flanker task.
  • Manipulated response effectors to isolate feature associations.

Main Results:

  • Crossmodal interference was observed after multisensory selection.
  • The effect depended on perceptual associations between stimulus features, not feature-response associations.
  • Establishing response associations did not yield crossmodal interference; feature associations did.

Conclusions:

  • Multisensory selection involves crossmodal interference.
  • These associations predominantly operate at the perceptual level.
  • Distractor interference in crossmodal tasks is mainly driven by perceptual associations.