Cross-Modal Information Transfer and the Effect of Concurrent Task-Load

• Published in: Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition Vol. 46; no. 1; pp. 104 - 116
• Main Author: Bahrami Balani, Alex
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Psychological Association 01.01.2020
• Subjects: Arithmetic; Auditory Stimuli; Cognitive Ability; Cognitive Processes; College Students; Cues; Reaction Time; Short Term Memory; Task Analysis; Transfer of Training; Verbal Stimuli; Visual Stimuli

People's everyday lives offer plenty of situations where complex processing of information takes place, in which information needs to transfer across modalities to achieve a behavioral goal. The study examined the differential effects on object detection by a visual, verbal, or auditory cue hel...