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The effect of auditory distractors on saccades toward visual targets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 1999

H. Colonius
Affiliation:
Institut fuer Kognitionsforschung, Carl von Ossietzky Universitaet, D-26111 Oldenburg, Germanycolonius@psychologie.uni-oldenburg.dearndt@psychologie.uni-oldenburg.de www.uni-oldenburg.de/~psycho/kognition/colonius.html
P. Arndt
Affiliation:
Institut fuer Kognitionsforschung, Carl von Ossietzky Universitaet, D-26111 Oldenburg, Germanycolonius@psychologie.uni-oldenburg.dearndt@psychologie.uni-oldenburg.de www.uni-oldenburg.de/~psycho/kognition/colonius.html

Abstract

The Findlay-Walker model does not consider saccades generated by auditory targets or nontargets (distractors), or by bimodal stimulation. Empirical results suggest that the effects of auditory stimulation cannot easily be incorporated into the model, neither in the WHEN nor in the WHERE system. A two-stage model by Colonius and Arndt gives a quantitative account of the facilitative effects of auditory distractors on saccadic latencies toward visual targets.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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