The cost of expecting events in the wrong sensory modality

被引:281
作者
Spence, C
Nicholls, MER
Driver, J
机构
[1] Univ Oxford, Dept Expt Psychol, Oxford OX1 3UD, England
[2] Univ Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic, Australia
[3] UCL, London, England
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PERCEPTION & PSYCHOPHYSICS | 2001年 / 63卷 / 02期
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10.3758/BF03194473
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
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04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
We examined the effects of modality expectancy on human performance. Participants judged azimuth (left vs. right location) for an unpredictable sequence of auditory, visual, and tactile targets. In some blocks, equal numbers of targets were presented in each modality. In others, the majority (75%) of the targets were presented in just one expected modality. Reaction times (RTs) for targets in an unexpected modality were slower than when that modality was expected or when no expectancy applied. RT costs associated with shifting attention from the tactile modality were greater than those for shifts from either audition or vision. Any RT benefits for the most likely modality were due to priming from an event in the same modality on the previous trial, not to the expectancy per se. These results show that stimulus-driven and expectancy-driven effects must be distinguished in studies of attending to different sensory modalities.
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