Defining attention from an auditory perspective

Abstract

Attention prioritizes certain information at the expense of other information in ways that are similar across vision, audition, and other sensory modalities. It influences how—and even what—information is represented and processed, affecting brain activity at every level. Much of the core research into cognitive and neural mechanisms of attention has used visual tasks. However, the same top‐down, object‐based, and bottom‐up attentional processes shape auditory perception, largely through the same underlying, cognitive networks.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2022
Source ID
10.1002/wcs.1610

Entities

People

  • Abigail L Noyce
  • Barbara Shinn-Cunningham
  • Jasmine A Kwasa

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University
  • National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
  • National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
  • Office of Naval Research

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Vision Science/Vision Psychology/Cognitive Neuroscience.