Figure 1.

Schematic illustration of the auditory and visual stimulus streams in the present study. In the auditory stream, the targets in phonological, spatial, and simple tasks were syllables starting (vs. ending) with a vowel, presented at the left or right lateral (vs. central) loci or spoken by a female (vs. male) voices. In the figure, female and male voices are indicated in italic and bold font, respectively. In the visual stream, the targets in phonological, spatial, and simple tasks were letters with their name beginning (vs. ending) with a vowel, letters presented farther off (vs. closer to) the fixation asterisk or letters written with a font darker (vs. lighter) than the background.