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The Attentional Window Modulates Capture by Audiovisual Events
Visual search is markedly improved when a target color change is synchronized with a spatially non-informative auditory signal. This “pip and pop” effect is an automatic process as even a distractor captures attention when accompanied by a tone. Previous studies investigating visual attention have i...
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2012
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3393717/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22808027 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0039137 |
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author | Van der Burg, Erik Olivers, Christian N. L. Theeuwes, Jan |
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description | Visual search is markedly improved when a target color change is synchronized with a spatially non-informative auditory signal. This “pip and pop” effect is an automatic process as even a distractor captures attention when accompanied by a tone. Previous studies investigating visual attention have indicated that automatic capture is susceptible to the size of the attentional window. The present study investigated whether the pip and pop effect is modulated by the extent to which participants divide their attention across the visual field We show that participants were better in detecting a synchronized audiovisual event when they divided their attention across the visual field relative to a condition in which they focused their attention. We argue that audiovisual capture is reduced under focused conditions relative to distributed settings. |
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spelling | pubmed-33937172012-07-17 The Attentional Window Modulates Capture by Audiovisual Events Van der Burg, Erik Olivers, Christian N. L. Theeuwes, Jan PLoS One Research Article Visual search is markedly improved when a target color change is synchronized with a spatially non-informative auditory signal. This “pip and pop” effect is an automatic process as even a distractor captures attention when accompanied by a tone. Previous studies investigating visual attention have indicated that automatic capture is susceptible to the size of the attentional window. The present study investigated whether the pip and pop effect is modulated by the extent to which participants divide their attention across the visual field We show that participants were better in detecting a synchronized audiovisual event when they divided their attention across the visual field relative to a condition in which they focused their attention. We argue that audiovisual capture is reduced under focused conditions relative to distributed settings. Public Library of Science 2012-07-10 /pmc/articles/PMC3393717/ /pubmed/22808027 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0039137 Text en Van der Burg et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Van der Burg, Erik Olivers, Christian N. L. Theeuwes, Jan The Attentional Window Modulates Capture by Audiovisual Events |
title | The Attentional Window Modulates Capture by Audiovisual Events |
title_full | The Attentional Window Modulates Capture by Audiovisual Events |
title_fullStr | The Attentional Window Modulates Capture by Audiovisual Events |
title_full_unstemmed | The Attentional Window Modulates Capture by Audiovisual Events |
title_short | The Attentional Window Modulates Capture by Audiovisual Events |
title_sort | attentional window modulates capture by audiovisual events |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3393717/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22808027 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0039137 |
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