Reversing the Colavita visual dominance effect

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  • dc.contributor.author Ngo, Mary Kimca
  • dc.contributor.author Cadieux, Michelle L.ca
  • dc.contributor.author Sinnet, Scottca
  • dc.contributor.author Soto-Faraco, Salvador, 1970-ca
  • dc.contributor.author Spence, Charlesca
  • dc.date.accessioned 2015-10-07T07:35:49Z
  • dc.date.available 2015-10-07T07:35:49Z
  • dc.date.issued 2011ca
  • dc.description.abstract Many researchers have taken the Colavita effect to represent a paradigm case of visual dominance. Broadly defined, the effect occurs when people fail to respond to an auditory target if they also have to respond to a visual target presented at the same time. Previous studies have revealed the remarkable resilience of this effect to various manipulations. In fact, a reversal of the Colavita visual dominance effect (i.e., auditory dominance) has never been reported. Here, we present a series of experiments designed to investigate whether it is possible to reverse the Colavita effect when the target stimuli consist of repetitions embedded in simultaneously presented auditory and visual streams of stimuli. In line with previous findings, the Colavita effect was still observed for an immediate repetition task, but when an n-1 repetition detection task was used, a reversal of visual dominance was demonstrated. These results suggest that masking from intervening stimuli between n-1 repetition targets was responsible for the elimination and reversal of the Colavita visual dominance effect. They further suggest that varying the presence of a mask (pattern, conceptual, or absent) in the repetition detection task gives rise to different patterns of sensory dominance (i.e., visual dominance, an elimination of the Colavita effect, or even auditory dominance).
  • dc.description.sponsorship SS-F was supported by grants SEJ 2007-64103/PSIC and CDS00012 from the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, ERC StG 263145, and grant 2009SGR-292 from DURSI.
  • dc.format.mimetype application/pdfca
  • dc.identifier.citation Ngo MK, Cadieux ML, Sinnett S, Soto-Faraco S, Spence C. Reversing the Colavita visual dominance effect. Exp Brain Res. 2011 Oct;214(4): 607-18. DOI 10.1007/s00221-011-2859-9ca
  • dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00221-011-2859-9
  • dc.identifier.issn 0014-4819ca
  • dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/24807
  • dc.language.iso engca
  • dc.publisher Springerca
  • dc.relation.ispartof Experimental Brain Research. 2011 Oct;214(4): 607-18.
  • dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/263145ca
  • dc.rights © Springer (The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com)ca
  • dc.rights.accessRights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessca
  • dc.subject.keyword Visual dominance
  • dc.subject.keyword Auditory dominance
  • dc.subject.keyword Colavita
  • dc.subject.keyword Repetition detection
  • dc.subject.keyword Masking
  • dc.title Reversing the Colavita visual dominance effectca
  • dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/articleca
  • dc.type.version info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersionca

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