Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

Some people experience sequences like numbers allocated to a specific part of space which is well-known as sequencespace synesthesia. On the other hand, covert attention is orienting of attention without the head, eyes, or body movementis the (mental) moving of attention toward a stimulus. Here, We used previous findings in sequence space synesthesia byusing an auditory number sequence numbers and covert spatial attention together with cognitive grammar theory includingprofiling to assess the possibility to shift covert attention towards a specific part of a bistable picture. Our participants were14 years old adolescents learning English at the pre-intermediate level in a school in Tehran which went through within-subject experiment. Results showed shorter reaction time for a sentence with trajectory congruent with covert attended partof the bistable picture compared to the condition without such attentional shift by t value as -4.466 within 95% confidenceinterval.