Cross-modal attentional entrainment: Insights from magicians
| Autor: | Alison D. Mackey, Stephen D. Goldinger, Anthony S. Barnhart, Mandy J. Ehlert |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Male Linguistics and Language Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Article 050105 experimental psychology Language and Linguistics Auditory rhythm Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Stimulus modality Rhythm Reaction Time Humans Visual attention Attention 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Problem Solving 05 social sciences Awareness Sensory Systems Modal Auditory Perception Visual Perception Female Magic Psychology Photic Stimulation 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. 80:1240-1249 |
| ISSN: | 1943-393X 1943-3921 |
| Popis: | Recently, performance magic has become a source of insight into the processes underlying awareness. Magicians have highlighted a set of variables that can create moments of visual attentional suppression, which they call "off-beats." One of these variables is akin to the phenomenon psychologists know as attentional entrainment. The current experiments, inspired by performance magic, explore the extent to which entrainment can occur across sensory modalities. Across two experiments using a difficult dot probe detection task, we find that the mere presence of an auditory rhythm can bias when visual attention is deployed, speeding responses to stimuli appearing in phase with the rhythm. However, the extent of this cross-modal influence is moderated by factors such as the speed of the entrainers and whether their frequency is increasing or decreasing. In Experiment 1, entrainment occurred for rhythms presented at .67 Hz, but not at 1.5 Hz. In Experiment 2, entrainment only occurred for rhythms that were slowing from 1.5 Hz to .67 Hz, not speeding. The results of these experiments challenge current models of temporal attention. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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