The experiment reported here used a variation of the spatial cueing task to examine the effects of unimodal and bimodal attention-orienting primes on target identification latencies and eye gaze movements. The primes were a nonspatial auditory tone and words known to drive attention consistent with the dominant writing and reading direction, as well as introducing a semantic, temporal bias (past-future) on the horizontal dimension. As expected, past-related (visual) word primes gave rise to shorter response latencies on the left hemifield and future-related words on the right. This congruency effect was differentiated by an asymmetric performance on the right space following future words and driven by the left-to-right trajectory of scanning habits that facilitated search times and eye gaze movements to lateralized targets. Auditory tone prime alone acted as an alarm signal, boosting visual search and reducing response latencies. Bimodal priming, i.e., temporal visual words paired with the auditory tone, impaired performance by delaying visual attention and response times relative to the unimodal visual word condition. We conclude that bimodal primes were no more effective in capturing participants' spatial attention than the unimodal auditory and visual primes. Their contribution to the literature on multisensory integration is discussed.

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同时呈现的单词和听觉音调对视觉运动表现的影响。


这里报告的实验使用空间提示任务的变体来检查单峰和双峰注意导向素对目标识别延迟和眼睛注视运动的影响。素数是一种非空间听觉音调和单词，已知可以引起与主导写作和阅读方向一致的注意力，并在水平维度上引入语义、时间偏差（过去未来）。正如预期的那样，与过去相关的（视觉）单词启动会导致左半视野的反应延迟较短，而与未来相关的单词则在右侧产生较短的反应延迟。这种一致性效应的特点是在未来单词之后的右侧空间上表现不对称，并受到从左到右的扫描习惯轨迹的驱动，这有利于搜索时间和眼睛注视移动到横向目标。听觉提示音单独充当警报信号，促进视觉搜索并减少响应延迟。双峰启动，即时间视觉词与听觉音调配对，通过相对于单峰视觉词条件延迟视觉注意力和反应时间来损害表现。我们得出的结论是，双峰启动在吸引参与者的空间注意力方面并不比单峰听觉和视觉启动更有效。讨论了他们对多感觉整合文献的贡献。