Citation

Parmentier FB, Ljungberg JK, Elsley JV, Lindkvist M. J. Exp. Psychol. Hum. Percept. Perform. 2011; 37(4): 1134-1139.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, American Psychological Association)

DOI

10.1037/a0021931

PMID

21517219

Abstract

Past research has demonstrated that the occurrence of unexpected task-irrelevant changes in the auditory or visual sensory channels captured attention in an obligatory fashion, hindering behavioral performance in ongoing auditory or visual categorization tasks and generating orientation and re-orientation electrophysiological responses. We report the first experiment extending the behavioral study of cross-modal distraction to tactile novelty. Using a vibrotactile-visual cross-modal oddball task and a bespoke hand-arm vibration device, we found that participants were significantly slower at categorizing the parity of visually presented digits following a rare and unexpected change in vibrotactile stimulation (novelty distraction), and that this effect extended to the subsequent trial (postnovelty distraction). These results are in line with past research on auditory and visual novelty and fit the proposition of common and amodal cognitive mechanisms for the involuntary detection of change. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved).


Keywords: Driver distraction;

Language: en