期刊
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
卷 35, 期 49, 页码 16046-16054出版社
SOC NEUROSCIENCE
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2931-15.2015
关键词
attentional load; auditory; MEG; visual
资金
- Wellcome Trust [093292/Z/10/Z]
- Economic and Social Research Council [ES/J500185/1]
- Wellcome Trust [093292/Z/10/Z] Funding Source: Wellcome Trust
- Economic and Social Research Council [1186826] Funding Source: researchfish
Due to capacity limits on perception, conditions of high perceptual load lead to reduced processing of unattended stimuli (Lavie et al., 2014). Accumulating work demonstrates the effects of visual perceptual load on visual cortex responses, but the effects on auditory processing remain poorly understood. Here we establish the neural mechanisms underlying inattentional deafness-the failure to perceive auditory stimuli under high visual perceptual load. Participants performed a visual search task of low (target dissimilar to nontarget items) or high (target similar to nontarget items) load. On a random subset (50%) of trials, irrelevant tones were presented concurrently with the visual stimuli. Brain activity was recorded with magnetoencephalography, and time-locked responses to the visual search array and to the incidental presence of unattended tones were assessed. High, compared to low, perceptual load led to increased early visual evoked responses (within 100 ms from onset). This was accompanied by reduced early (similar to 100 ms from tone onset) auditory evoked activity in superior temporal sulcus and posterior middle temporal gyrus. A later suppression of the P3 awareness response to the tones was also observed under high load. A behavioral experiment revealed reduced tone detection sensitivity under high visual load, indicating that the reduction in neural responses was indeed associated with reduced awareness of the sounds. These findings support a neural account of shared audiovisual resources, which, when depleted under load, leads to failures of sensory perception and awareness.
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