Principlev1
Switch sensory modalities when designing triggers to exploit
Switch sensory modalities when designing triggers to exploit parallel attentional processing rather than competing within the same channel.
Why This Is a Principle
This principle derives from attention being capacity-limited (Attention as Gate to Conscious Perception) and information processing occurring through independent verbal/linguistic and nonverbal/imagistic channels (Dual Coding Theory: Verbal and Visual Channels). It prescribes cross-modal trigger design as a way to avoid attentional competition. The principle is general enough to apply across any trigger context.