Department of Psychology, Soochow University, Suzhou, China.
Jiangsu Provincial Key Constructive Laboratory for Big Data of Psychology and Cognitive Science, Yancheng Teachers University, Yancheng, China.
Perception. 2022 Jun;51(6):388-402. doi: 10.1177/03010066221093479. Epub 2022 Apr 18.
Pairing a single visual stimulus with multiple auditory stimuli will lead to the illusory perception of multiple visual stimuli, which is known as sound-induced flash illusion (SIFI). The present study adopted the classic SIFI paradigm to investigate whether value-associated tasks could affect the SIFI. By adjusting the sequence of reward and nonreward conditions, we also examined the effect of reward history on SIFI. The results showed that the fission illusion was reduced when associated with momentary reward, demonstrating significantly higher accuracy and discriminability than the nonreward condition. However, the fusion illusion was not affected by the momentary reward, and the explanation was that the fusion illusion was not as stable as the fission illusion and disappeared across different trials and conditions. Moreover, the robustness of reward history in the present study was not as strong as previous studies have suggested, indicating that the effect of sound on the perceptual representation of visual stimuli is strong and robust to reward history. These findings demonstrated that the reward could reduce the SIFI and broaden the existing dichotomy of SIFI. New evidence for the operation of value-driven attention mechanisms is also provided, suggesting that the underlying value-driven attention operates across multiple sensory systems.
将单个视觉刺激与多个听觉刺激配对会导致多个视觉刺激的错觉感知,这被称为声音诱导闪光错觉(SIFI)。本研究采用经典的 SIFI 范式来探讨与价值相关的任务是否会影响 SIFI。通过调整奖励和非奖励条件的顺序,我们还研究了奖励历史对 SIFI 的影响。结果表明,与瞬间奖励相关联时,分裂错觉会减少,表现出比非奖励条件更高的准确性和可辨别性。然而,融合错觉不受瞬间奖励的影响,其解释是融合错觉不如分裂错觉稳定,在不同的试验和条件下都会消失。此外,本研究中奖励历史的稳健性并不像之前的研究表明的那样强,这表明声音对视觉刺激的感知表示的影响是强大而稳健的,不受奖励历史的影响。这些发现表明,奖励可以减少 SIFI,并拓宽 SIFI 的现有二分法。还为价值驱动注意力机制的运作提供了新的证据,表明潜在的价值驱动注意力在多个感觉系统中运作。