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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Psychol.
Sec. Cognitive Science
Volume 15 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1504068
This article is part of the Research Topic Attention Mechanisms and Cross-Modal Integration in Language and Visual Cognition View all articles

Visual dominance of the congruency sequence effect in a cross-modal context

Provisionally accepted
Xiaoyu Tang Xiaoyu Tang 1*Xi Zhang Xi Zhang 1*Tingting Wang Tingting Wang 2*Hongtao Yu Hongtao Yu 1*Aijun Wang Aijun Wang 2*Ming Zhang Ming Zhang 2*
  • 1 Liaoning Normal University, Dalian, China
  • 2 Department of Psychology, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China

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    The congruency sequence effect (CSE) refers to the reduction in the congruency effect in the current trial after an incongruent trial compared with a congruent trial.Although previous studies widely suggested that CSE was observed only in the modality repeat condition, few studies have reported that CSE could also appear in the modality switch condition. However, it remains unclear whether these conflicting findings were caused by partial repetition effects under modality transition conditions.To address this issue, Experiment 1 controlled for partial repetition effects by ensuring that the modality relationships in both the repetition and switch conditions were either fully congruent or incongruent. The results revealed significant CSE only under the modality repetition condition. In particular, a larger CSE was observed in visual-auditory (VA) repetition than in auditory-visual (AV) repetition, indicating that modality asymmetry might affect the CSE by inducing the priming effect. Thus, Experiment 2 concurrently presented visual and auditory stimuli to eliminate priming effects and further validated CSE differences between auditory and visual modalities.The results revealed that the CSE was significantly greater under the VA condition

    Keywords: cognitive control, congruency sequence effect, cross-modal, conflict adaptation, Visual dominance

    Received: 30 Sep 2024; Accepted: 04 Dec 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Tang, Zhang, Wang, Yu, Wang and Zhang. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence:
    Xiaoyu Tang, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian, China
    Xi Zhang, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian, China
    Tingting Wang, Department of Psychology, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215000, Jiangsu Province, China
    Hongtao Yu, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian, China
    Aijun Wang, Department of Psychology, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215000, Jiangsu Province, China
    Ming Zhang, Department of Psychology, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215000, Jiangsu Province, China

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