Project publishes new study suggesting that attentional resource allocation in multisensory processing is task-dependent.

Investigations of attentional resources in multisensory processing often concentrate on the influence of different modalities. However, does the type of task play a role in the allocation of attention? This study shows that in a detection task attentional resources are partly shared with the attentional resources required for visuospatial processing. In conjunction with previous results, this argues attentional resource allocation in multisensory processing is task-dependent. Benefits of multisensory integration are not dependent on attentional resources. [link to the article]