Previous studies demonstrated that the sequential verification of different sensory modality properties for concepts (e.g., BLENDER-loud; BANANA-yellow) brings about a processing cost, known as the modality-switch effect. We report an experiment designed to assess the influence of the mode of presentation (i.e., visual, aural) of stimuli on the modality-switch effect in a property verification ...

Previous studies have shown that the perception of facial and vocal affective expressions interacts with each other. Facial expressions usually dominate vocal expressions when we perceive the emotions of face-voice stimuli. In most of these studies, participants were instructed to pay attention to the face or voice. Few studies compared the perceived emotions with and without specific instructi...

When unfamiliar non-speech sounds and visual input cooccur, they often compete for attention, with auditory input overshadowing visual information for infants and young children (Robinson & Sloutsky, in press; Sloutsky & Napolitano, 2003). The current study investigated whether labels and familiar sounds also compete for attention with corresponding visual information in infancy. The results in...