Traditional studies of spatial attention consider only a single sensory modality at a time (eg
just vision, or just audition). In daily life, however, our spatial attention often has to be …

A great deal is now known about the effects of spatial attention within individual sensory
modalities, especially for vision and audition. However, there has been little previous study …

A sudden touch on one hand can improve vision near that hand, revealing crossmodal links
in spatial attention. It is often assumed that such links involve only multimodal neural …

This book is a succinct introduction to the orienting of attention. Richard Wright and
Lawrence Ward describe the covert orienting literature clearly and concisely, illustrating it …

Despite 2 centuries of research, the question of whether attending to a sensory modality
speeds the perception of stimuli in that modality has yet to be resolved. The authors highlight …

Covert orienting in hearing was examined by presenting auditory spatial cues prior to an
auditory target, requiring either a choice or detection response. Targets and cues appeared …

We report two experiments designed to investigate the potential use of vibrotactile warning
signals to present spatial information to car drivers. Participants performed an attention …

In 7 experiments we investigated cross-modal links for endogenous covert spatial orienting
in hearing and vision. Participants judged the elevation (up vs. down) of auditory or visual …

This chapter describes a sensory modality that underlies the most common everyday
activities: maintaining one's posture, scratching an itch, or picking up a spoon. As a topic of …

Observed breakdowns in human-machine communication can be explained, in part, by the
nature of current automation feedback, which relies heavily on focal visual attention. Such …