University of York, Department of Psychology, Heslington, York, YO10 5DD, United Kingdom.
Cognition. 2020 Mar;196:104119. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2019.104119. Epub 2019 Nov 18.
Evans and Treisman (2010) showed systematic interactions between audition and vision when participants made speeded classifications in one modality while supposedly ignoring another. We found perceptual facilitation between high pitch and high visual position, high spatial frequency and small size, and interference between high pitch and low position, low spatial frequency and large size, while the converse was the case between low pitch and the same visual features. The present study examined the role of selective attention in these cross-modal interactions. Participants performed speeded classification or search tasks of low or high load while attempting to ignore irrelevant stimuli in a different modality. In both paradigms, congruency between the visual and the irrelevant auditory stimulus had an equal effect in the low and in the high perceptual load conditions. A third experiment tested divided attention, requiring participants to compare stimuli across modalities and respond to the visual-auditory compound. The congruency effect was as large with attention focused on one modality as when it was divided across both. These findings offer converging evidence that cross-modal interactions between corresponding basic features are independent of selective attention.
埃文斯和特雷西曼（2010）表明，当参与者在一种模式下快速进行分类，而同时假定忽略另一种模式时，听觉和视觉之间存在系统的相互作用。我们发现，在高音和高视觉位置、高空间频率和小尺寸之间存在感知促进，而在高音和低位置、低空间频率和大尺寸之间存在干扰，而在低音和相同的视觉特征之间则相反。本研究考察了选择性注意在这些跨模态相互作用中的作用。参与者在执行低或高负载的快速分类或搜索任务时，试图忽略不同模态中的无关刺激。在这两种范式中，视觉和无关听觉刺激之间的一致性在低和高知觉负载条件下都具有相同的效果。第三个实验测试了分散注意力，要求参与者跨模态比较刺激并对视觉-听觉复合刺激做出反应。当注意力集中在一种模态上时，与注意力分散在两种模态上时相比，一致性效应一样大。这些发现提供了一致的证据，表明相应基本特征之间的跨模态相互作用独立于选择性注意。
