Cross Modal Experiment

Brunel, Vallet & Versace(2009) created a study to examine the effect cross-modal priming presents when interrupted by visual and auditory simulations/masks, in order to prove that the priming effects is contingent to intuition/knowledge. Two experiments were conducted; each consisted of twenty-four students from Lyon 2 University in France, who were all right-handed and had normal/corrected vision. The first experiment focused on visual priming, which consisted of six practice trials and six experimental trials. Each student was instructed to quickly respond/answer which image belonged to the appropriate group, by using a keyboard to press the keys that correspond to an animal or object. During the trials, there were a series of masked (slightly …show more content…
Like Brunel, Vallet & Versace (2009), the goal of the online experiment was to observe the participant’s response time by using auditory and visual stimuli’s, in addition to the studies being conducted on a computer, software program, and headphones. Including that the participants of the studies were university students, however, unlike Brunel, Vallet & Versace (2009), the online experiment was conducted in the U.S. (El Paso, Tx), while the authors study took place in France at Lyon 2 University. Although the experiments shared some similarities, such as, deciding which visual stimuli belonged to a particular category, Brunel, Vallet & Versace (2009) focused on whether priming has anything to do with being a feature of knowledge, rather than studying a person’s level of understanding in language, as well as using photographs for visual stimuli instead of working with words. The cross-modal priming effect in the studies urged participants to respond as quickly as possible without making errors, discretely prompting individuals to rely on the primed stimuli to respond accurately in a shorter amount of time, Brunel, Vallet & Versace (2009), found that priming is a component/ability of a person’s learning process, whereas the online study was interested in replicating Holcomb, Anderson & Grainger (2005), …show more content…
This experiment had similarities such as that of the online experiment that was administered towards the class, such as, the way the studies were being conducted. Both of the studies used computers to display the visual stimuli and headsets for the auditory stimuli, including, categorizing the real and pseudo words with the (2) keys of a keyboard, and focused on how fast the participants responded in the task. But unlike the online cross-modal priming experiment, Graniger, Segui & Van Kang (2001), used different types of manipulation to cause a distraction in order to observe how students responded, such as, randomly administering dominant and subordinate (homophonic) words with real or pseudo words, and changing the volume/frequency of the headphones. The goal of the study is similar to that of the online experiment, which was to measure the period of time participants accurately responded, however, Graniger, Segui & Van Kang (2001), were interested in finding whether the students depended on their strategy/instinct (priming) when distracted by visual real/pseudo-homophonic words, and noticed that the participant discarded their strategy causing the individuals to make more