Revealing the stimulus-driven component of attention through modulations of auditory salience by timbre attributes.

ABSTRACT: Attention allows the listener to select relevant information from their environment, and disregard what is irrelevant. However, irrelevant stimuli sometimes manage to capture it and stand out from a scene because of bottom-up processes driven by salient stimuli. This attentional capture effect was observed using an implicit approach based on the additional singleton paradigm. In the auditory domain, it was shown that sound attributes such as intensity and frequency tend to capture attention during auditory search (cost to performance) for targets defined on a different dimension such as duration. In the present study, the authors examined whether a similar phenomenon occurs for attributes of timbre such as brightness (related to the spectral centroid) and roughness (related the amplitude m

SUBMITTER: Bouvier B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10133446 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature