Thats a unique idea.You should consider the following idea to enhance your idea so that it would impact uniquely: Neuroimaging studies suggest that a fronto-parietal network is activated when  expect visual information to appear at a specific spatial location. Here  examined whether a similar network is involved for auditory stimuli.  used sparse fMRI to infer brain activation while participants performed analogous visual and auditory tasks. On some trials, participants re asked to discriminate the elevation of a peripheral target. On other trials, participants made a nonspatial judgment.  contrasted trials where the participants expected a peripheral spatial target to those where they re cued to expect a central target. Crucially, our statistical analyses re based on trials where stimuli re anticipated but not presented, allowing us to directly infer perceptual orienting independent of perceptual processing. This is the first neuroimaging study to use an orthogonal-cuing paradigm (with cues predicting azimuth and responses involving elevation discrimination). This aspect of our paradigm is important, as behavioral cueing effects in audition are classically only observed when participants are asked to make spatial judgments.  observed similar fronto-parietal activation for both vision and audition. In a second experiment that controlled for stimulus properties and task difficulty, participants made spatial and temporal discriminations about musical instruments.  found that the pattern of brain activation for spatial selection of auditory stimuli was remarkably similar to what  found in our first experiment. Collectively, these results suggest that the neural mechanisms supporting spatial attention are largely similar across both visual and auditory modalities.
['David V. Smith', 'Ben Davis', 'Kathy Niu', 'Eric W. Healy', 'Leonardo Bonilha', 'Julius Fridriksson', 'Paul S. Morgan', 'Chris Rorden']
I am writing a research paper on a idea Spatial attention evokes similar activation patterns for visual and auditory stimuli
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