2026-04-29T00:59:57Zhttps://repisalud.isciii.es/rest/oai/requestoai:repisalud.isciii.es:20.500.12105/236982024-11-28T21:04:59Zcom_20.500.12105_15322com_20.500.12105_2051col_20.500.12105_16967
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Weise, Annekathrin
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Hartmann, Thomas
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Parmentier, Fabrice
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Weisz, Nathan
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Ruhnau, Philipp
2024-10-09T06:35:07Z
2024-10-09T06:35:07Z
2023-10
Weise A, Hartmann T, Parmentier F, Weisz N, Ruhnau P. Involuntary shifts of spatial attention contribute to distraction-Evidence from oscillatory alpha power and reaction time data. Psychophysiology. 2023 May 29;e14353.
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13003/19356
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12105/23698
37246813
10.1111/psyp.14353
1540-5958
Psychophysiology
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L641443095
Imagine you are focusing on the traffic on a busy street to ride your bike safely when suddenly you hear the siren of an ambulance. This unexpected sound involuntarily captures your attention and interferes with ongoing performance. We tested whether this type of distraction involves a spatial shift of attention. We measured behavioral data and magnetoencephalographic alpha power during a cross-modal paradigm that combined an exogenous cueing task and a distraction task. In each trial, a task-irrelevant sound preceded a visual target (left or right). The sound was usually the same animal sound (i.e., standard sound). Rarely, it was replaced by an unexpected environmental sound (i.e., deviant sound). Fifty percent of the deviants occurred on the same side as the target, and 50% occurred on the opposite side. Participants responded to the location of the target. As expected, responses were slower to targets that followed a deviant compared to a standard. Crucially, this distraction effect was mitigated by the spatial relationship between the targets and the deviants: responses were faster when targets followed deviants on the same versus different side, indexing a spatial shift of attention. This was further corroborated by a posterior alpha power modulation that was higher in the hemisphere ipsilateral (vs. contralateral) to the location of the attention-capturing deviant. We suggest that this alpha power lateralization reflects a spatial attention bias. Overall, our data support the contention that spatial shifts of attention contribute to deviant distraction.
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Involuntary shifts of spatial attention contribute to distraction-Evidence from oscillatory alpha power and reaction time data
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