Intersensory conflict between vision and touch: The response modality dominates when precise, attention-riveting judgments are required

Spatial attention and crossmodal interactions between vision and touch.

In the present paper, we review several functional imaging studies investigating crossmodal interactions between vision and touch relating to spatial attention. We asked how the spatial unity of a multimodal event in the external world might be represented in the brain, where signals from different modalities are initially processed in distinct brain regions. The results highlight several links...

Sustained Spatial Attention in Touch: Modality-Specific and Multimodal Mechanisms

Sustained attention to a body location results in enhanced processing of tactile stimuli presented at that location compared to another unattended location. In this paper, we review studies investigating the neural correlates of sustained spatial attention in touch. These studies consistently show that activity within modality-specific somatosensory areas (SI and SII) is modulated by sustained ...

When audition dominates vision: evidence from cross-modal statistical learning.

Presenting information to multiple sensory modalities sometimes facilitates and sometimes interferes with processing of this information. Research examining interference effects shows that auditory input often interferes with processing of visual input in young children (i.e., auditory dominance effect), whereas visual input often interferes with auditory processing in adults (i.e., visual domi...

Running Head : Intersensory conflict and the rTPJ The role of the right temporoparietal junction in intersensory conflict : Detection or resolution ?

Crossmodal change blindness between vision and touch.

Change blindness is the name given to people's inability to detect changes introduced between two consecutively-presented scenes when they are separated by a distractor that masks the transients that are typically associated with change. Change blindness has been reported within vision, audition, and touch, but has never before been investigated when successive patterns are presented to differe...