title: Crossmodal object-based attention: auditory objects affect visual processing.
abstract: According to the object-based view, visual attention can be deployed to "objects" or perceptual units, regardless of spatial locations. Recently, however, the notion of object has also been extended to the auditory domain, with some authors suggesting possible interactions between visual and auditory objects. Here we show that task-irrelevant auditory objects may affect the deployment of visual attention, providing evidence that crossmodal links can also occur at an object-based level. Hence, in addition to the well documented control of visual objects over what we hear, our findings demonstrate that, in some cases, auditory objects can affect visual processing.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cognitive Science and Education, University of Trento, Via Matteo del Ben, 5, 38068 Rovereto (TN), Italy. massimo.turatto@unitn.it
authors.forename: Massimo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Turatto
authors.forename: Veronica
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Mazza
authors.forename: Carlo
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Umiltà
mesh_terms: D000339:Affect; D001288:Attention; D006801:Humans; D011930:Reaction Time; D013028:Space Perception; D014796:Visual Perception