No Evidence for an Auditory Attentional Blink for Voices Regardless of Musical Expertise.

ABSTRACT: Background: Attending to goal-relevant information can leave us metaphorically "blind" or "deaf" to the next relevant information while searching among distracters. This temporal cost lasting for about a half a second on the human selective attention has been long explored using the attentional blink paradigm. Although there is evidence that certain visual stimuli relating to one's area of expertise can be less susceptible to attentional blink effects, it remains unexplored whether the dynamics of temporal selective attention vary with expertise and objects types in the auditory modality. Methods: Using the auditory version of the attentional blink paradigm, the present study investigates whether certain auditory objects relating to musical and perceptual expertise could have

SUBMITTER: Akca M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6966238 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature