title: Integrating the irrelevant sound.
abstract: A distractor can be integrated with a target response and the subsequent repetition of the distractor can facilitate or hamper responding depending on whether the same or a different response is required, a phenomenon labeled distractor-response binding. In two experiments we used a priming paradigm with an identification task to investigate influences of stimulus grouping on the binding of irrelevant stimuli (distractors) and responses in audition. In a grouped condition participants heard relevant and irrelevant sounds in one central location, whereas in a non-grouped condition the relevant sound was presented to one ear and the irrelevant sound was presented to the other ear. Distractor-based retrieval of the prime response was stronger for the grouped compared to the non-grouped presentation of stimuli indicating that binding of irrelevant auditory stimuli with responses is modulated by perceptual grouping.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Trier, Germany. moellerb@uni-trier.de
authors.forename: Birte
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Moeller
authors.forename: Klaus
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Rothermund
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Frings
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D001307:Auditory Perception; D003463:Cues; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011930:Reaction Time