A target that shares features with preceding distractor stimuli is less likely to be detected due to a distractor-driven activation of a negative attentional set. This transient impairment in perceiving the target (distractor-induced blindness/deafness) can be found within vision and audition. Recently, the phenomenon was observed in a cross-modal setting involving an auditory target and additional task-relevant visual information (cross-modal distractor-induced deafness). In the current study, consisting of three behavioral experiments, a visual target, indicated by an auditory cue, had to be detected despite the presence of visual distractors. Multiple distractors consistently led to reduced target detection if cue and target appeared in close temporal proximity, confirming cross-modal distractor-induced blindness. However, the effect on target detection was reduced compared to the effect of cross-modal distractor-induced deafness previously observed for reversed modalities. The physical features defining cue and target could not account for the diminished distractor effect in the current cross-modal task. Instead, this finding may be attributed to the auditory cue acting as an especially efficient release signal of the distractor-induced inhibition. Additionally, a multisensory enhancement of visual target detection by the concurrent auditory signal might have contributed to the reduced distractor effect.

由于负注意力集的分心驱动激活，与先前分心刺激共享特征的目标不太可能被检测到。在视觉和听觉中可以发现这种感知目标的短暂障碍（分心引起的失明/耳聋）。最近，在涉及听觉目标和其他与任务相关的视觉信息（跨模态干扰物引起的耳聋）的跨模态环境中观察到了这种现象。在目前的研究中，由三个行为实验组成，尽管存在视觉干扰，但仍必须检测由听觉提示指示的视觉目标。如果提示和目标出现在时间上非常接近，则多个干扰物始终会导致目标检测减少，从而证实跨模态干扰物引起的失明。然而，与之前观察到的反向模式的跨模态干扰物引起的耳聋的影响相比，对目标检测的影响有所降低。定义提示和目标的物理特征无法解释当前跨模态任务中的干扰效应减弱。相反，这一发现可能归因于听觉提示作为干扰诱导抑制的特别有效的释放信号。此外，并发听觉信号对视觉目标检测的多感官增强可能有助于减少干扰效应。相反，这一发现可能归因于听觉提示作为干扰诱导抑制的特别有效的释放信号。此外，并发听觉信号对视觉目标检测的多感官增强可能有助于减少干扰效应。相反，这一发现可能归因于听觉提示作为干扰诱导抑制的特别有效的释放信号。此外，并发听觉信号对视觉目标检测的多感官增强可能有助于减少干扰效应。