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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychol.
Sec. Cognitive Science
Volume 16 - 2025 |
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1548100
This article is part of the Research Topic Attention Mechanisms and Cross-Modal Integration in Language and Visual Cognition View all 5 articles
Exploring How Sensory Dominance Modulated by Modality-specific Expectation： An Event-Related Potential Study
Provisionally accepted- 1 Liaoning Normal University, Dalian, China
- 2 School of Agriculture, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan Province, China
- 3 Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai, Shanghai Municipality, China
- 4 Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China
The Colavita visual dominance effect refers to the phenomenon in which tend to respond only or preferentially to visual stimuli of bimodal audiovisual stimulus. Previous evidence has indicated that sensory dominance can be modulated by top-down expectation. However, it remains unclear how expectations directed toward a single sensory modality influence Colavita visual dominance at the electrophysiology level. Using event-related potential (ERP) measurements, we investigated how modality expectation modulates sensory dominance by manipulating the different unimodal target probabilities used in previous related Colavita studies. For the behavioral results, a significantly larger visual dominance effect was found when the modality expectation was directed to the visual sensory condition (40% V:10% A). Further ERPs results revealed that the mean amplitude of P2 (200-250 ms) in the central-parietal region was larger in the visual precedence auditory response (V_A) type than in the auditory precedence visual response (A_V) type when modality expectation was directed to visual sensory stimuli (40% V:10% A). In contrast, the mean amplitude of N2 (290-330 ms) in the frontal region was larger for the V_A type than in the A_V type when modality expectation was directed to the auditory sensory stimuli (10%V:40%A). Additionally, for the A_V type N1 (150-170 ms) in the frontal region was larger in visual versus auditory expectation condition. Overall, the study tentatively suggested that increasing unimodal target probability may lead to greater top-down expectation direct to target modality stimulus, and then sensory dominance emerges in the late phase when participant response to visual stimuli of bimodal audiovisual stimulus.
Keywords: Colavita effect, modality expectation, Sensory dominance, Response precedence, Event-related potentials
Received: 19 Dec 2024; Accepted: 03 Feb 2025.
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* Correspondence:
Yu Shilong, Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai, 200083, Shanghai Municipality, China
Aijun Wang, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215000, Jiangsu Province, China
Hongtao Yu, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian, China
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