Integrating modality-specific expectancies for the deployment of spatial attention.

ABSTRACT: The deployment of spatial attention is highly sensitive to stimulus predictability. Despite evidence for strong crossmodal links in spatial attentional systems, it remains to be elucidated how concurrent but divergent predictions for targets in different sensory modalities are integrated. In a series of behavioral studies, we investigated the processing of modality-specific expectancies using a multimodal cueing paradigm in which auditory cues predicted the location of visual or tactile targets with modality-specific cue predictability. The cue predictability for visual and tactile targets was manipulated independently. A Bayesian ideal observer model with a weighting factor was applied to trial-wise individual response speed to investigate how the two probabilistic contexts are integrated

SUBMITTER: Mengotti P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5775425 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature