Fu Jing, Guo Xuanru, Tang Xiaoyu, Wang Aijun, Zhang Ming, Gao Yulin, Seno Takeharu
School of Psychology, Liaoning Collaborative Innovation Center of Children and Adolescents Healthy Personality Assessment and Cultivation, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian, China.
Faculty of Design, Kyushu University, Minami-ku, Fukuoka, Japan.
Iperception. 2021 Dec 23;12(6):20416695211058222. doi: 10.1177/20416695211058222. eCollection 2021 Nov.
Attention contains three functional network subcomponents of alerting, orienting, and executive control. The attention network test (ANT) is usually used to measure the efficiency of three attention subcomponents. Previous researches have focused on examining the unimodal attention with visual or auditory ANT paradigms. However, it is still unclear how an auditory stimulus influences the visual attention networks. This study investigated the effects of bilateral auditory stimuli (Experiment 1) and ipsilateral auditory stimulus (Experiment 2) on the visual attention subcomponents. We employed an ANT paradigm and manipulated the target modality types, including visual and audiovisual modalities. The participants were instructed to distinguish the direction of the central arrow surrounded by distractor arrows. In Experiment 1, we found that the simultaneous bilateral auditory stimuli reduced the efficiency of visual alerting and orienting, but had no significant effect on the efficiency of visual executive control. In Experiment 2, the ipsilateral auditory stimulus reduced the efficiency of visual executive control, but had no significant effect on the efficiency of visual alerting and orienting. We also observed a reduced relative multisensory response enhancement (rMRE) effect in cue condition relative to no cue condition (Experiment 1), and an increased rMRE effect in congruent condition compared with incongruent condition (Experiment 2). These results firstly provide evidence for the alerting, orienting and executive control effects in audiovisual condition. And the bilateral and ipsilateral auditory stimuli have different effects on the subcomponents of visual attention.
注意包含警觉、定向和执行控制这三个功能性网络子成分。注意网络测试（ANT）通常用于测量这三个注意子成分的效率。以往的研究主要集中在使用视觉或听觉ANT范式来检验单模态注意。然而，尚不清楚听觉刺激如何影响视觉注意网络。本研究调查了双侧听觉刺激（实验1）和同侧听觉刺激（实验2）对视觉注意子成分的影响。我们采用了ANT范式，并操纵了目标模态类型，包括视觉和视听模态。参与者被要求区分被干扰箭头包围的中央箭头的方向。在实验1中，我们发现同时出现的双侧听觉刺激降低了视觉警觉和定向的效率，但对视觉执行控制的效率没有显著影响。在实验2中，同侧听觉刺激降低了视觉执行控制的效率，但对视觉警觉和定向的效率没有显著影响。我们还观察到，与无线索条件相比，线索条件下的相对多感官反应增强（rMRE）效应降低（实验1），与不一致条件相比，一致条件下的rMRE效应增加（实验2）。这些结果首先为视听条件下的警觉、定向和执行控制效应提供了证据。并且双侧和同侧听觉刺激对视觉注意的子成分有不同的影响。
