Investigating Deviance Distraction and the Impact of the Modality of 					the To-Be-Ignored Stimuli

Marsja, Erik; Neely, Gregory; Ljungberg, Jessica K.

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“…Distractor stimuli often lead to a decreased performance (Parmentier, 2008;Bendixen et al, 2010;Parmentier et al, 2010Parmentier et al, , 2019Demeter et al, 2016) due to increase in reaction time (Parmentier et al, 2010(Parmentier et al, , 2019, while there is evidence for both an increase (SanMiguel et al, 2010;Marsja et al, 2018) and a decrease in accuracy (Demeter et al, 2016). In contrast to the majority of these studies the multisensory alignment of our auditory and visual events led to no significant modification of reaction times, but an increase in accuracy.…”

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Alignment of Continuous Auditory and Visual Distractor Stimuli Is Leading to an Increased Performance

Mühlberg

Müller

2020

Front. Psychol.

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Information across different senses can affect our behavior in both positive and negative ways. Stimuli aligned with a target stimulus can lead to improved behavioral performances, while competing, transient stimuli often negatively affect our task performance. But what about subtle changes in task-irrelevant multisensory stimuli? Within this experiment we tested the effect of the alignment of subtle auditory and visual distractor stimuli on the performance of detection and discrimination tasks respectively. Participants performed either a detection or a discrimination task on a centrally presented Gabor patch, while being simultaneously subjected to a random dot kinematogram, which alternated its color from green to red with a frequency of 7.5 Hz and a continuous tone, which was either a frequency modulated pure tone for the audiovisual congruent and incongruent conditions or white noise for the visual control condition. While the modulation frequency of the pure tone initially differed from the modulation frequency of the random dot kinematogram, the modulation frequencies of both stimuli could align after a variable delay, and we measured accuracy and reaction times around the possible alignment time. We found increases in accuracy for the audiovisual congruent condition suggesting subtle alignments of multisensory background stimuli can increase performance on the current task.

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Alignment of Continuous Auditory and Visual Distractor Stimuli Is Leading to an Increased Performance

Mühlberg

Müller

2020

Front. Psychol.

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“…Attentional capture by deviant sounds is not contingent upon tasks taxing STM (e.g., Hughes et al., 2005, 2007; Lange, 2005) and has been shown in cross-modal task settings using auditory (e.g., Parmentier, 2014) and vibratory (Parmentier et al., 2011b; Ljungberg and Parmentier, 2012; Marsja et al., 2018) TBI stimuli. Furthermore, deviant stimuli have also been found to elicit three brain responses.…”

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“…Deviant vibrations have been shown to capture attention from categorization tasks (Parmentier et al., 2011c): an effect that has been found to be functionally similar to attention capture by deviant stimuli (Ljungberg and Parmentier, 2012). Finally, it has also been reported that an omission of a standard vibration can capture attention (Marsja et al., 2018). Although bimodal deviants have been reported to capture attention using the oddball paradigm, the effect has not been found to be larger than auditory deviants (Boll and Berti, 2009).…”

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Examining the Role of Spatial Changes in Bimodal and Uni-Modal To-Be-Ignored Stimuli and How They Affect Short-Term Memory Processes

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This study examines the potential vulnerability of short-term memory processes to distraction by spatial changes within to-be-ignored bimodal, vibratory, and auditory stimuli. Participants were asked to recall sequences of serially presented digits or locations of dots while being exposed to to-be-ignored stimuli. On unexpected occasions, the bimodal to-be-ignored sequence, vibratory to-be-ignored sequence, or auditory to-be-ignored sequence changed their spatial origin from one side of the body (e.g., ear and arm, arm only, ear only) to the other. It was expected that the bimodal stimuli would make the spatial change more salient compared to that of the uni-modal stimuli and that this, in turn, would yield an increase in distraction of serial short-term memory in both the verbal and spatial domains. Our results support this assumption as a disruptive effect of the spatial deviant was only observed when presented within the bimodal to-be-ignored sequence: uni-modal to-be-ignored sequences, whether vibratory: or auditory, had no impact on either verbal or spatial short-term memory. Implications for models of attention capture and the potential special attention capturing role of bimodal stimuli are discussed.

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“…Compared with the auditory condition, the subjects actively allocate attention to the visual-modality sentences (primary task) and the tactile-modality target (secondary and cross-modal task). Attention allocation to auditory stimuli decreased when attention was directed to sequences of tactile stimulus (Marsja et al, 2018). Neuroimaging studies also revealed that the activity of the auditory cortex is attenuated when visual stimuli are presented, while the activity of the visual cortex is attenuated when tactile or auditory stimuli are presented (Laurienti et al, 2002;Merabet et al, 2007).…”

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The Relationship Between Attentional Capture by Speech and Nonfluent Speech Under Delayed Auditory Feedback: A Pilot Examination of a Dual-Task Using Auditory or Tactile Stimulation

Ishida

Iimura

Miyamoto

2020

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Delayed auditory feedback (DAF) leads to nonfluent speech where the voice of a speaker is heard after a delay. Previous studies suggested the involvement of attention to auditory feedback in speech disfluency. To date, there are no studies that have revealed the relationship between attention and nonfluent speech by controlling the attention allocated to the delayed own voice. This study examined these issues under three conditions: a single task where the subject was asked to read aloud under DAF (single DAF task), a dual task where the subject was asked to read aloud while reacting to a pure tone (auditory DAF task), and a dual task where the subject was asked to read aloud while reacting to the vibration of their finger (tactile DAF task). The subjects also performed the single and dual tasks (auditory/tactile) under nonaltered auditory feedback where no delayed voices were involved. Results showed that the nonfluency rate under the auditory DAF task was significantly greater than that under the single DAF task. In contrast, the nonfluency rate under the tactile DAF task was significantly lower compared with that of the single DAF task. Speech became nonfluent when attention was captured by the same modality stimulus, i.e., auditory tone. In contrast, speech became fluent when attention was allocated to the stimulus that is irreverent to auditory modality, i.e., tactile vibration. This indicates that nonfluent speech under DAF is involved in attention capture owing to the delayed own voice.

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Investigating Deviance Distraction and the Impact of the Modality of the To-Be-Ignored Stimuli

Cited by 6 publications

References 44 publications

Alignment of Continuous Auditory and Visual Distractor Stimuli Is Leading to an Increased Performance

Alignment of Continuous Auditory and Visual Distractor Stimuli Is Leading to an Increased Performance

Examining the Role of Spatial Changes in Bimodal and Uni-Modal To-Be-Ignored Stimuli and How They Affect Short-Term Memory Processes

The Relationship Between Attentional Capture by Speech and Nonfluent Speech Under Delayed Auditory Feedback: A Pilot Examination of a Dual-Task Using Auditory or Tactile Stimulation

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