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Distraction by vibro-tactile and auditory novel stimuli

Fabrice Parmentier1* and Jessica Ljungberg2
  • 1 University of the Balearic Islands, Spain
  • 2 Umea University, Sweden

Past studies have shown that unexpected changes in a stream of auditory distracters capture attention in an ineluctable manner and delay responses in an ongoing categorization task. We extend the study of this phenomenon by reporting a within-participant comparison of novelty distraction in the tactile and auditory modalities using vibrotactile-visual and auditory-visual cross-modal oddball tasks. The results showed a number of functional similarities between the tactile and auditory modalities: a negative impact of distracter novelty on performance in the ongoing visual task (novelty distraction), distraction on the subsequent trial (post-novelty distraction), and a similar decrease of these effects across blocks.

Keywords: Attention, Novel stimuli

Conference: XI International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON XI), Palma, Mallorca, Spain, 25 Sep - 29 Sep, 2011.

Presentation Type: Poster Presentation

Topic: Poster Sessions: Neurophysiology of Cognition and Attention

Citation: Parmentier F and Ljungberg J (2011). Distraction by vibro-tactile and auditory novel stimuli. Conference Abstract: XI International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON XI). doi: 10.3389/conf.fnhum.2011.207.00314

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Received: 22 Nov 2011; Published Online: 28 Nov 2011.

* Correspondence: Dr. Fabrice Parmentier, University of the Balearic Islands, Palma, Mallorca, Spain, fabrice.parmentier@uib.es