OBJECTIVE To establish the modality specificity and generality of selective attention networks. METHOD Forty-eight young adults completed a battery of four auditory and visual selective attention tests based upon the Attention Network framework: the visual and auditory Attention Network Tests (vANT, aANT), the Test of Everyday Attention (TEA), and the Test of Attention in Listening (TAiL). Th...

In this study we examined the types of information that can influence the perception of upright (yaw) rotations. Specifically, we examined the influence of stimulus magnitude, task-induced attention and awareness of intersensory conflicts on the weights of visual and body cues. Participants had to reproduce rotations that were presented as simultaneous physical body turns (via a motion platform...

Interpersonal metaphor, as one constituent of grammatical metaphor in systemic-functional grammar, is mainly represented by mood and modality. The language the movie Carnage abound with interpersonal metaphors diverse context “communication” “conflict” respectively. By summarizing application two types specific contexts “conflict”, int...

The stakeholder management literature is dominated by the 'shareholder value ' and 'inclusive stakeholder' views of the corporation. Each views the governance problem in terms of inter-functional conflicts between stakeholder groups, such as between investors and managers or managers and employees, and rests on the assumption of an idealized corporate structure characterized by the separation o...

Body composition determination with single slice computed tomography (CT) image analysis that was used in study by Lee at al. (1) has increasingly been popular. This modality relies on determination of lipid and muscle mass by quantitative analysis of predefined CT slice through attenuation value of tissues. In the current work, image analysis was performed at the level of umbilicus (between th...

Previous research has shown that redundant information in faces and voices leads to faster emotional categorization compared to incongruent emotional information even when attending to only one modality. The aim of the present study was to test whether these crossmodal effects are predominantly due to a response conflict rather than interference at earlier, e.g. perceptual processing stages. In...

It is often claimed that binding information across sensory modalities leads to coherent, unitary mental representations. The dramatic illusions experienced as a result of intersensory conflict, such as the McGurk effect, are often attributed to a propensity of the perceptual system to impose multisensory coherence onto events originating from a common source. In contrast with this ssumption of...

Visual cortical areas are involved in a variety of somatosensory tasks in the sighted, including tactile perception of two-dimensional patterns and motion, and haptic perception of three-dimensional objects. It is still unresolved whether visual imagery or modality-independent representations can better explain such cross-modal recruitment. However, these explanations are not necessarily in con...

Bilinguals often outperform monolinguals on nonverbal tasks that require resolving conflict from competing alternatives. The regular need to select a target language is argued to enhance executive control. We investigated whether this enhancement stems from a general effect of bilingualism (the representation of two languages) or from a modality constraint that forces language selection. Bimoda...