Evans and Treisman (2010) showed systematic interactions between audition and vision when participants made speeded classifications in one modality while supposedly ignoring another. We found perceptual facilitation between high pitch and high visual position, high spatial frequency and small size, and interference between high pitch and low position, low spatial frequency and large size, while the converse was the case between low pitch and the same visual features. The present study examined the role of selective attention in these cross-modal interactions. Participants performed speeded classification or search tasks of low or high load while attempting to ignore irrelevant stimuli in a different modality. In both paradigms, congruency between the visual and the irrelevant auditory stimulus had an equal effect in the low and in the high perceptual load conditions. A third experiment tested divided attention, requiring participants to compare stimuli across modalities and respond to the visual-auditory compound. The congruency effect was as large with attention focused on one modality as when it was divided across both. These findings offer converging evidence that cross-modal interactions between corresponding basic features are independent of selective attention.

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选择性注意在听觉和视觉特征之间的交互交互中的作用。

Evans和Treisman（2010）展示了试听者和视力之间的系统性交互作用，当参与者在一种方式中进行了快速分类的同时却忽略了另一种方式。我们发现高音高和视觉位置之间的感知便利性，高空间频率和小尺寸之间的感知便利，以及高音和低位置之间的干扰，低空间频率和大尺寸之间的干扰，而低音高和相同视觉特征之间的情况则相反。本研究检查了选择性注意在这些交叉模式相互作用中的作用。参与者执行了加速的低负荷或高负荷分类或搜索任务，同时尝试以其他方式忽略无关的刺激。在这两种范式中 视觉和无关的听觉刺激之间的一致性在低和高知觉负载条件下具有相同的效果。第三个实验测试了注意力的分散，要求参与者比较各种方式的刺激并对视觉听觉复合物做出反应。一致效应与将注意力集中在一个模态上一样大，注意力集中在一个模态上。这些发现提供了越来越多的证据，表明相应基本特征之间的交叉模式交互作用与选择性注意无关。