Event Details
Influences of attention on auditory aftereffects following purely visual adaptation
- Event Date: April 30, 2007
- Event Start Time: 1:00 PM
- Event End Time: 2:00 PM
- Event Location: Rutgers University, Biomedical Engineering, and Center for Cognitive Science
- Event Type: Human and Computer Vision Series
- Event Semester: Spring 2007
- Event Contact: Thomas Papathomas
- Event Extra info: <a href="http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/~papathom">Thomas Papathomas</a>
Recently, Kitagawa and Ichihara [2002] demonstrated that visual adaptation to an expanding or contracting disk produces a cross-modal visually induced auditory loudness aftereffect (VALAE), which they attributed to cross correlations of motion in three-dimensional space. Our experiments extend their results by providing evidence that attending selectively to one of two competing visual stimuli of the same saliency produces a cross-modal VALAE that favors the attended stimulus. These cross-modal attentional effects suggest the existence of integrative spatial mechanisms between vision and audition that are affected by attention.