Visual processing near the hands is altered compared with stimuli far from the hands. Here, we aimed to test whether this alteration can be found in auditory processing. Participants were required to perform an auditory Simon task either with their hands close to the loudspeakers or far from the loudspeakers. Two experiments consistently showed that the auditory Simon effect was enhanced when the hands were close to the speakers compared with far from the speakers. This is consistent with previous findings of an enhanced visual Simon effect near the hands. Furthermore, the hand-proximity effects in auditory and visual Simon tasks (an enhanced Simon effect near hands compared with far from hands) were comparable, indicating hand-proximity effect is reliable across visual and auditory modalities. Thus, the present study extended the hand-proximity effect from vision to audition by showing that the auditory Simon effect was enhanced near the hands compared with far from the hands.

与远离手部的刺激相比，靠近手部的视觉处理发生了变化。在这里，我们旨在测试这种改变是否可以在听觉处理中找到。要求参与者双手靠近扬声器或远离扬声器执行西蒙听觉任务。两个实验一致地表明，与离讲话者较远的手相比，当手靠近讲话者时，西蒙的听觉效果得到增强。这与以前发现手附近视觉西蒙效果增强的发现一致。此外，在听觉和视觉Simon任务中手的接近效果（手附近的西蒙效果增强，而离手较远）增强了，这表明手接近效果在视觉和听觉方式上都是可靠的。从而，