TY - JOUR
T1 - Look and ye shall hear
T2 - Selective auditory attention modulates the audiovisual correspondence effect
AU - Janyan, Armina
AU - Shtyrov, Yury
AU - Andriushchenko, Ekaterina
AU - Blinova, Ekaterina
AU - Shcherbakova, Olga
PY - 2022/5
Y1 - 2022/5
N2 - One of the unresolved questions in multisensory research is that of automaticity of consistent associations between sensory features from different modalities (e.g. high visual locations associated with high sound pitch). We addressed this issue by examining a possible role of selective attention in the audiovisual correspondence effect. We orthogonally manipulated loudness and pitch, directing participants’ attention to the auditory modality only and using pitch and loudness identification tasks. Visual stimuli in high, low or central spatial locations appeared simultaneously with the sounds. If the correspondence effect is automatic, it should not be affected by task changes. The results, however, demonstrated a cross-modal pitch-verticality correspondence effect only when participants’ attention was directed to pitch, but not to loudness identification task; moreover, the effect was present only in the upper location. The findings underscore the involvement of selective attention in cross-modal associations and support a top-down account of audiovisual correspondence effects.
AB - One of the unresolved questions in multisensory research is that of automaticity of consistent associations between sensory features from different modalities (e.g. high visual locations associated with high sound pitch). We addressed this issue by examining a possible role of selective attention in the audiovisual correspondence effect. We orthogonally manipulated loudness and pitch, directing participants’ attention to the auditory modality only and using pitch and loudness identification tasks. Visual stimuli in high, low or central spatial locations appeared simultaneously with the sounds. If the correspondence effect is automatic, it should not be affected by task changes. The results, however, demonstrated a cross-modal pitch-verticality correspondence effect only when participants’ attention was directed to pitch, but not to loudness identification task; moreover, the effect was present only in the upper location. The findings underscore the involvement of selective attention in cross-modal associations and support a top-down account of audiovisual correspondence effects.
KW - audiovisual correspondence
KW - RT
KW - selective attention
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85131175585&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/20416695221095884
DO - 10.1177/20416695221095884
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 35646302
AN - SCOPUS:85131175585
SN - 2041-6695
VL - 13
JO - i-Perception
JF - i-Perception
IS - 3
ER -