Orienting spatial attention to sounds enhances visual processing

VS Störmer - Current opinion in psychology, 2019 - Elsevier
Highlights•Hearing a salient sound can attract visual-spatial attention to its
location.•Orienting to a sound's location enhances visual perception.•A peripheral sound …

Dissociable neural mechanisms underlie the effects of attention on visual appearance and response bias

S Itthipuripat, T Phangwiwat… - Journal of …, 2023 - Soc Neuroscience
A prominent theoretical framework spanning philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience
holds that selective attention penetrates early stages of perceptual processing to alter the …

[HTML][HTML] Lateralized alpha activity and slow potential shifts over visual cortex track the time course of both endogenous and exogenous orienting of attention

JM Keefe, VS Störmer - NeuroImage, 2021 - Elsevier
Spatial attention can be oriented endogenously, based on current task goals, or
exogenously, triggered by salient events in the environment. Based upon literature …

Neural tracking of auditory motion is reflected by delta phase and alpha power of EEG

A Bednar, EC Lalor - NeuroImage, 2018 - Elsevier
It is of increasing practical interest to be able to decode the spatial characteristics of an
auditory scene from electrophysiological signals. However, the cortical representation of …

Visual cortex responds to sound onset and offset during passive listening

D Brang, J Plass, A Sherman… - Journal of …, 2022 - journals.physiology.org
Sounds enhance our ability to detect, localize, and respond to co-occurring visual targets.
Research suggests that sounds improve visual processing by resetting the phase of ongoing …

Non-zero mean alpha oscillations revealed with computational model and empirical data

AA Studenova, A Villringer… - PLoS computational …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Ongoing oscillations and evoked responses are two main types of neuronal activity obtained
with diverse electrophysiological recordings (EEG/MEG/iEEG/LFP). Although typically …

Scaling up visual attention and visual working memory to the real world

TF Brady, VS Störmer, A Shafer-Skelton… - Psychology of learning …, 2019 - Elsevier
Both visual attention and visual working memory tend to be studied either with very simple
stimuli and low-level paradigms, which are designed to allow us to understand the …

Inducing synesthesia in non-synesthetes: Short-term visual deprivation facilitates auditory-evoked visual percepts

A Nair, D Brang - Consciousness and cognition, 2019 - Elsevier
Sounds can modulate activity in visual cortex, facilitating the detection of visual targets.
However, these sound-driven modulations are not thought to evoke conscious visual …

Tuning attention to object categories: Spatially global effects of attention to faces in visual processing

VS Störmer, MA Cohen, GA Alvarez - Journal of cognitive …, 2019 - direct.mit.edu
Feature-based attention is known to enhance visual processing globally across the visual
field, even at task-irrelevant locations. Here, we asked whether attention to object …

Involuntary orienting of attention to sight or sound relies on similar neural biasing mechanisms in early visual processing

VS Stoermer, JJ McDonald, SA Hillyard - Neuropsychologia, 2019 - Elsevier
A sudden visual or acoustic change in the environment can capture attention involuntarily
and facilitate perceptual processing of a subsequent visual target at the same location. The …