“…The issue of whether different modalities draw on separate, independent resource pools or are shared across a single, central pool accessible to all sensory modalities has been a central question in cognitive neuroscience (e.g. Duncan et al., 1997, Larsen et al., 2003, Alais et al., 2006, Kreitz et al., 2015) that has yielded mixed findings (Dyson et al., 2005, Muller-Gass et al., 2005, Talsma et al., 2006, Rees et al., 2001, Sculthorpe et al., 2008, Restuccia et al., 2005, Otten et al., 2000, Müller et al., 2002, Parks et al., 2011, Chait et al., 2012, Salmela et al., 2014, Raveh and Lavie, 2015, Molloy et al., 2015, Masutomi et al., 2016). For example, Rees et al., 1997, Rees et al., 2001 showed that visual load, but not auditory load, modulates processing of a task-irrelevant visual motion stimulus.…”