Influence of task-relevant and task-irrelevant feature continuity on selective auditory attention

JARO - Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 119-129

  Maddox, Ross K ^a   Shinn Cunningham, Barbara G ^b  

^a Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

^b Center for Computational Neuroscience and Neural Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Bottom up; Object based attention; Psychophysics; Streaming; Top down

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY SYSTEM; FEMALE; HEARING TEST; HUMAN; MALE; MASKING; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RANDOMIZATION; REVIEW; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SPEECH; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PITCH PERCEPTION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860225214     PISSN: 15253961     EISSN: 14387573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10162-011-0299-7     Document Type: Review

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