Expectations modulate the magnitude of attentional capture by auditory events.

What determines the magnitude of attentional capture by deviant sound events? We combined the cross-modal oddball distraction paradigm with sequence learning to address this question. Participants responded to visual targets, each preceded by tones that formed a repetitive cross-trial standard seque...

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Main Authors: Anatole Nöstl, John E Marsh, Patrik Sörqvist
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3492454?pdf=render