ArticleCerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991)2020
Olfactory Influences on Visual Categorization: Behavioral and ERP Evidence.
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- Odor-driven face-like categorization in the human infant brain.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
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Abstract
Visual stimuli often dominate nonvisual stimuli during multisensory perception. Evidence suggests higher cognitive processes prioritize visual over nonvisual stimuli during divided attention. Visual stimuli should thus be disproportionally distracting when processing incongruent cross-sensory stimulus pairs. We tested this assumption by comparing visual processing with olfaction, a "primitive" sensory channel that detects potentially hazardous chemicals by alerting attention. Behavioral and event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were assessed in a bimodal object categorization task with congruent or incongruent odor-picture pairings and a delayed auditory target that indicated whether olfactory or visual cues should be categorized. For congruent pairings, accuracy was higher for visual compared to olfactory decisions. However, for incongruent pairings, reaction times (RTs) were faster for olfactory decisions. Behavioral results suggested that incongruent odors interfered more with visual decisions, thereby providing evidence for an "olfactory dominance" effect. Categorization of incongruent pairings engendered a late "slow wave" ERP effect. Importantly, this effect had a later amplitude peak and longer latency during visual decisions, likely reflecting additional categorization effort for visual stimuli in the presence of incongruent odors. In sum, contrary to what might be inferred from theories of "visual dominance," incongruent odors may in fact uniquely attract mental processing resources during perceptual incongruence.
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