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Cristy Ho

Investigating the crossmodal spatial cuing of driver attention
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Cristy Ho
Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford University

Hong Z. Tan
Haptic Interface Research Laboratory, Purdue University

Charles Spence
Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford University

     Abstract ID Number: 33
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     Last modified: June 24, 2005

Abstract
Previous research has shown that the presentation of spatially-predictive auditory and vibrotactile warning signals can facilitate driver responses to driving events seen through the windscreen or rearview mirror. In the present study, we investigated whether this facilitation reflects the priming of the appropriate response (i.e., braking vs. accelerating) or an attentional cuing effect (i.e., a perceptual benefit that facilitates subsequent behavioral responding). In the experiments reported here, participants had to discriminate the colour of a numberplate (red vs. blue) following the presentation of either spatially-predictive vibrotactile (Experiment 1) or auditory (Experiment 2) warning signals that indicated the likely location (front or back) of the visual target, while simultaneously performing a highly attention-demanding rapid serial visual presentation task. Numberplate discrimination performance was facilitated following the presentation of valid auditory cues but not following the presentation of equally informative vibrotactile cues. The use of an orthogonal cuing design enabled us to rule out a potential response priming account of these data. Our results suggest that while directional congruency between a warning signal and a target event may be sufficient to facilitate performance due to the priming of the appropriate response, attentional facilitation effects may require the co-location of the cue and target within the same functional region of space as well.

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