Tones disrupt visual fixations and responding on a visual-spatial task.

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (11) ◽  
pp. 1301-1312
Author(s):  
Dylan Laughery ◽  
Noah Pesina ◽  
Christopher W. Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Task ◽  
Visual Spatial ◽  
Visual Fixations

Tones disrupt visual fixations and responding on a visual-spatial task

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher W Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Visual Stimulus ◽  
Response Times ◽  
Visual Stimuli ◽  
Spatial Task ◽  
Visual Images ◽  
Eye Tracker ◽  
Visual Spatial ◽  
Silent Condition ◽  
Modality Dominance ◽  
Visual Fixations

The current study used an eye tracker to examine how auditory input affects the latency of visual saccades, fixations, and response times while using variations of a Serial Response Time (SRT) task. In Experiment 1, participants viewed a repeating sequence of visual stimuli that appeared in different locations on a computer monitor and they had to quickly determine if each visual stimulus was red or blue. The visual sequence was either presented in silence or paired with tones. Compared to the silent condition, the tones slowed down red/blue discriminations and delayed the latency of first fixations to the visual stimuli. To ensure the interference was not occurring during the decision/response phase and to better understand the nature of auditory interference, we removed the red/blue discrimination task in Experiment 2, manipulated cognitive load, and developed a gaze-contingent procedure where the timing of each visual stimulus was dependent on a saccade crossing a gaze-contingent boundary surrounding the target. Participants were slower at initiating their saccades/fixations and made more fixations under high load and auditory interference was found with participants being more likely to fixate on the visual images and were faster at fixating on the visual stimuli when the visual sequences were presented in silence. These findings suggest that auditory interference effects occur early in the course of processing and provide insights into potential mechanisms underlying modality dominance effects.

Examining Differences in Visual--Spatial Task Performance: Sport Participation and Gender

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Logan Kaleta ◽  
David E. Ritchie ◽  
Scott Leydig ◽  
Susana Quintana Marikle ◽  
Stephen A. Russo
Keyword(s):  
Task Performance ◽  
Sport Participation ◽  
Spatial Task ◽  
Visual Spatial ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Spatial Task Performance

Predictors of Sat Mathematics Scores of Gifted Male and Gifted Female Adolescents

1989 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shelagh A. Gallagher
Keyword(s):  
Learning Style ◽  
Spatial Task ◽  
Female Adolescents ◽  
Mathematics Scores ◽  
Cognitive Reasoning ◽  
Visual Spatial ◽  
Speed Of Response ◽  
Differential Performance ◽  
Predominant Factor ◽  
Males And Females

A regression analysis was conducted to determine the relative importance of a series of variables in the prediction of SAT-Mathematics (SAT-M) scores of gifted males and females. Among the variables considered were visual-spatial ability, cognitive reasoning ability, learning style, and SAT-Verbal (SAT-V) scores. Scores on the visual-spatial task were analyzed for speed of response as well as ability. For both sexes, reasoning skills were the predominant factor in the prediction formulas. Differences in the two formulas seemed to reflect males' greater facility with process skills necessary for the SAT-M. Implications are discussed regarding how to interpret the differential performance of gifted males and females on the SAT-M.

scholarly journals Visual spatial attention and spatial working memory do not draw on shared capacity-limited core processes

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (5) ◽  
pp. 799-818 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina J Howard ◽  
Rebekah Pole ◽  
Paulina Montgomery ◽  
Amanda Woodward ◽  
Duncan Guest ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Spatial Attention ◽  
Spatial Working Memory ◽  
Underlying Mechanism ◽  
Spatial Task ◽  
Monitoring Task ◽  
Visual Spatial ◽  
Location Binding ◽  
Load Types ◽  
Position Monitoring

The extent to which similar capacity limits in visual attention and visual working memory indicate a common shared underlying mechanism is currently still debated. In the spatial domain, the multiple object tracking (MOT) task has been used to assess the relationship between spatial attention and spatial working memory though existing results have been inconclusive. In three dual task experiments, we examined the extent of interference between attention to spatial positions and memory for spatial positions. When the position monitoring task required keeping track of target identities through colour-location binding, we found a moderate detrimental effect of position monitoring on spatial working memory and an ambiguous interaction effect. However, when this task requirement was removed, load increases in neither task were detrimental to the other. The only very moderate interference effect that remained resided in an interaction between load types but was not consistent with shared capacity between tasks—rather it was consistent with content-related crosstalk between spatial representations. Contrary to propositions that spatial attention and spatial working memory may draw on a common shared set of core processes, these findings indicate that for a purely spatial task, perceptual attention and working memory appear to recruit separate core capacity-limited processes.

Eliminating Gender Differences Through Practice in an Applied Visual Spatial Task

1998 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 337-349 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven J. Kass ◽  
Robert H. Ahlers ◽  
Melissa Dugger
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Spatial Task ◽  
Visual Spatial

Short-Term Improvement on a Visual-Spatial Task After Music Listening in Alzheimer's Disease

2002 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 37-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julene K. Johnson ◽  
Gordon L. Shaw ◽  
My Vuong ◽  
Sydni Vuong ◽  
Carl W. Cotman
Keyword(s):  
Alzheimer’S Disease ◽  
Alzheimer's Disease ◽  
Spatial Task ◽  
Music Listening ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Visual Spatial
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