caa a22 4500 44535223X CHVBK 20180317142847.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s00221-011-2667-2 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s00221-011-2667-2 Sustained selective intermodal attention modulates processing of language-like stimuli [Elektronische Daten] [Christian Keitel, Erich Schröger, Katja Saupe, Matthias Müller] Intermodal attention (IA) is assumed to allocate limited neural processing resources to input from one specific sensory modality. We investigated effects of sustained IA on the amplitude of a 40-Hz auditory (ASSR) and a 4.3-Hz visual steady-state response (VSSR). To this end, we concurrently presented amplitude-modulated multi-speech babble and a stream of nonsense letter sets to elicit the respective brain responses. Subjects were cued trialwise to selectively attend to one of the streams for several seconds where they had to perform a lexical decision task on occasionally occurring words and pseudowords. Attention to the auditory stream led to greater ASSR amplitudes than attention to the visual stream. Vice versa, the VSSR amplitude was greater when the visual stream was attended. We demonstrate that IA research by means of frequency tagging can be extended to complex stimuli as used in the current study. Furthermore, we show not only that IA selectively modulates processing of concurrent multisensory input but that this modulation occurs during trial-by-trial cueing of IA. The use of frequency tagging may be suitable to study the role of IA in more naturalistic setups that comprise a larger number of multisensory signals. Springer-Verlag, 2011 Human EEG nationallicence Intermodal attention nationallicence Sustained attention nationallicence VSSR nationallicence ASSR nationallicence Speech nationallicence Keitel Christian Institut für Psychologie, Universität Leipzig, Seeburgstraße 14-20, 04103, Leipzig, Germany aut Schröger Erich Institut für Psychologie, Universität Leipzig, Seeburgstraße 14-20, 04103, Leipzig, Germany aut Saupe Katja Institut für Psychologie, Universität Leipzig, Seeburgstraße 14-20, 04103, Leipzig, Germany aut Müller Matthias Institut für Psychologie, Universität Leipzig, Seeburgstraße 14-20, 04103, Leipzig, Germany aut Experimental Brain Research Springer-Verlag 213/2-3(2011-09-01), 321-327 0014-4819 213:2-3<321 2011 213 221 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-011-2667-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-011-2667-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Keitel Christian Institut für Psychologie, Universität Leipzig, Seeburgstraße 14-20, 04103, Leipzig, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Schröger Erich Institut für Psychologie, Universität Leipzig, Seeburgstraße 14-20, 04103, Leipzig, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Saupe Katja Institut für Psychologie, Universität Leipzig, Seeburgstraße 14-20, 04103, Leipzig, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Müller Matthias Institut für Psychologie, Universität Leipzig, Seeburgstraße 14-20, 04103, Leipzig, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Experimental Brain Research Springer-Verlag 213/2-3(2011-09-01), 321-327 0014-4819 213:2-3<321 2011 213 221 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer