Crossmodal Research Laboratory, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3UD, UK.
Hear Res. 2009 Dec;258(1-2):134-42. doi: 10.1016/j.heares.2009.04.015. Epub 2009 May 3.
The last 30 years have seen numerous studies demonstrating unimodal and crossmodal spatial cuing effects. However, surprisingly few studies have attempted to investigate whether multisensory cues might be any more effective in capturing a person's spatial attention than unimodal cues. Indeed, until very recently, the consensus view was that multisensory cues were, in fact, no more effective. However, the results of several recent studies have overturned this conclusion, by showing that multisensory cues retain their attention-capturing ability under conditions of perceptual load (i.e., when participants are simultaneously engaged in a concurrent attention-demanding task) while their constituent signals (when presented unimodally) do not. Here we review the empirical literature on multisensory spatial cuing effects and highlight the implications that this research has for the design of more effective warning signals in applied settings.
过去 30 年来，已有大量研究证明了单模态和跨模态的空间提示效应。然而，令人惊讶的是，很少有研究试图探究多感觉线索是否比单感觉线索更能有效地吸引人们的注意力。事实上，直到最近，人们的共识观点是，多感觉线索实际上并没有更有效。然而，最近的几项研究结果推翻了这一结论，表明在感知负荷条件下（即当参与者同时参与需要注意力的并发任务时），多感觉线索保持其吸引注意力的能力，而其组成信号（当以单模态呈现时）则没有。在这里，我们回顾了关于多感觉空间提示效应的实证文献，并强调了这一研究对设计更有效的应用环境中的警告信号的意义。
