Focusing, Sustaining, and Switching Attention
Abstract
Experiments with human subjects explored how auditory attention operates. Specifically, the experiments investigated 1) the hypothesis that room reverberation interferes with selective attention, 2) whether selective attention to an ongoing target improves with time when the target has a contiguous feature distinguishing if from competing sources, and 3) how visual cues help direct selective auditory attention through behavioral measures and computational modeling. Results demonstrate that 1) selective attention is adversely affected by room reverberation, 2) continuity of task-irrelevant sound features strongly enhances the ability to maintain attention on a stream based on some other, orthogonal feature, and 3) visual cues can be used to direct selective auditory attention.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 12, 2013
- Accession Number
- ADA595125
Entities
People
- Barbara Shinn-Cunningham