Turatto Massimo, Mazza Veronica, Umiltà Carlo
Department of Cognitive Science and Education, University of Trento, Via Matteo del Ben, 5, 38068 Rovereto (TN), Italy.
Cognition. 2005 Jun;96(2):B55-64. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2004.12.001.
According to the object-based view, visual attention can be deployed to "objects" or perceptual units, regardless of spatial locations. Recently, however, the notion of object has also been extended to the auditory domain, with some authors suggesting possible interactions between visual and auditory objects. Here we show that task-irrelevant auditory objects may affect the deployment of visual attention, providing evidence that crossmodal links can also occur at an object-based level. Hence, in addition to the well documented control of visual objects over what we hear, our findings demonstrate that, in some cases, auditory objects can affect visual processing.
根据基于对象的观点，视觉注意力可以被部署到“对象”或感知单元上，而不管其空间位置如何。然而，最近对象的概念也被扩展到了听觉领域，一些作者提出视觉和听觉对象之间可能存在相互作用。在这里，我们表明与任务无关的听觉对象可能会影响视觉注意力的部署，这为跨模态联系也可能在基于对象的层面上发生提供了证据。因此，除了视觉对象对我们所听到的内容有充分记录的控制作用外，我们的研究结果还表明，在某些情况下，听觉对象可以影响视觉处理。
