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No evidence for tactile entrainment of attention
Temporal patterns in our environment provide a rich source of information, to which endogenous neural processes linked to perception and attention can synchronize. This phenomenon, known as entrainment, has so far been studied predominately in the visual and auditory domains. It is currently unknown...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10250593/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37303888 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1168428 |
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description | Temporal patterns in our environment provide a rich source of information, to which endogenous neural processes linked to perception and attention can synchronize. This phenomenon, known as entrainment, has so far been studied predominately in the visual and auditory domains. It is currently unknown whether sensory phase-entrainment generalizes to the tactile modality, e.g., for the perception of surface patterns or when reading braille. Here, we address this open question via a behavioral experiment with preregistered experimental and analysis protocols. Twenty healthy participants were presented, on each trial, with 2 s of either rhythmic or arrhythmic 10 Hz tactile stimuli. Their task was to detect a subsequent tactile target either in-phase or out-of-phase with the rhythmic entrainment. Contrary to our hypothesis, we observed no evidence for sensory entrainment in response times, sensitivity or response bias. In line with several other recently reported null findings, our data suggest that behaviorally relevant sensory phase-entrainment might require very specific stimulus parameters, and may not generalize to the tactile domain. |
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spelling | pubmed-102505932023-06-10 No evidence for tactile entrainment of attention Pomper, Ulrich Front Psychol Psychology Temporal patterns in our environment provide a rich source of information, to which endogenous neural processes linked to perception and attention can synchronize. This phenomenon, known as entrainment, has so far been studied predominately in the visual and auditory domains. It is currently unknown whether sensory phase-entrainment generalizes to the tactile modality, e.g., for the perception of surface patterns or when reading braille. Here, we address this open question via a behavioral experiment with preregistered experimental and analysis protocols. Twenty healthy participants were presented, on each trial, with 2 s of either rhythmic or arrhythmic 10 Hz tactile stimuli. Their task was to detect a subsequent tactile target either in-phase or out-of-phase with the rhythmic entrainment. Contrary to our hypothesis, we observed no evidence for sensory entrainment in response times, sensitivity or response bias. In line with several other recently reported null findings, our data suggest that behaviorally relevant sensory phase-entrainment might require very specific stimulus parameters, and may not generalize to the tactile domain. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-05-26 /pmc/articles/PMC10250593/ /pubmed/37303888 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1168428 Text en Copyright © 2023 Pomper. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Pomper, Ulrich No evidence for tactile entrainment of attention |
title | No evidence for tactile entrainment of attention |
title_full | No evidence for tactile entrainment of attention |
title_fullStr | No evidence for tactile entrainment of attention |
title_full_unstemmed | No evidence for tactile entrainment of attention |
title_short | No evidence for tactile entrainment of attention |
title_sort | no evidence for tactile entrainment of attention |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10250593/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37303888 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1168428 |
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