Nevertheless, this modest correspondence in within-modality AB magnitudes, together with the lack of a cross-modal AB, suggest that in most (but apparently, not all) individuals there is a common delay in the modality-specific re-allocation of attention for T2, or alternatively, a similar protection process that inhibits modality-specific sensory input.
If two representations are simulated by different modality-specific systems, then constructing them consecutively will involve a switch of attention from one modality to another.
In future research, we should focus more clearly on identifying anesthetists' information needs and we should develop models of attention in different modalities and across different modalities that are more capable of guiding design.
Since we were also interested in the explicit computation of the significant part of the topographic difference between modalities, we complemented the analysis of correlations, by illustrating the significant part of each individual's difference of attention correlates between modalities.
Several studies on cross-modal attention showed that remapping processes between sensory modalities occur in the spatial orienting of attention.
In view of the limitations of tamoxifen as a single modality treatment, attention has switched to the neoadjuvant use of endocrine therapy to increase the rate of breast conservation [ 21].
Complementarily, to evaluate the intra-individual differences in cortical topography of attention correlates between modalities, we computed a point-by-point dipole strength difference vector.
We were interested in qualitatively replicating our recent findings on the localization of attention-induced beta bands during a visual task [1], and verifying whether significant topographic changes would follow the change of attention to the auditory modality.
In addition to attention and modality of response, it may be that the different pattern of results reflects the fact that in young children vision may have less impact on hearing than in older children, whereas hearing has comparable effects on vision across all ages.
This is in keeping with studies showing that temporal performance is compromised by rapid switching of attention between the sensory modalities (e.g., [12], [41]).
