Visuo-tactile Distractors in Perception and Action

How do humans represent distractor stimuli comprising features from different modalities? Are these distractors represented as multisensory objects? I discuss data from a multisensory variant of the flanker paradigm (e.g., Jensen, Merz, Spence, & Frings, 2019; Merz, Jensen, Spence, & Frings, 2019) which enabled us to tackle this question. Taken together, the internal representation of visuo-tactile distractors seems to depend on (visual) spatial attention. This result fits to old ideas about feature integration (e.g. Treisman & Gelade, 1980): Yet, it can also be related to modern approaches on action control that still incorporate the idea of feature integration albeit with dissolving the boundaries of response and perception features (e.g. Frings et al., accepted).