Cross-modal selective attention: on the difficulty of ignoring sounds at the locus of visual attention.
In three experiments, we investigated whether the ease with which distracting sounds can be ignored depends on their distance from fixation and from attended visual events. In the first experiment, participants shadowed an auditory stream of words presented behind their heads, while simultaneously f...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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2000
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