Change perception in complex auditory scenes

Memory for sound, with an ear toward hearing in complex auditory scenes

“…In audition, transients would typically be changes in energy or frequency from one scene to the next when a sound is removed or replaced. Like change blindness, change deafness occurs when an interruption between scenes masks the transients (e.g., Eramudugolla et al, 2005); however, change deafness is just as prevalent when there is no interruption between scenes (Pavani & Turatto, 2008). This finding seems to suggest that the auditory system does not rely on transients in the same manner as the visual system and, therefore, that auditory and visual memory during natural scene perception may operate quite differently.…”

“…Recent studies using the one-shot technique in audition (e.g., Eramudugolla et al, 2005;Gregg & Samuel, 2008) have shown that listeners often miss changes to environmental objects, such as a dog barking changing to a piano tune. The small body of change deafness research that has been done indicates that listeners typically miss changes anywhere from about 30% (Pavani & Turatto, 2008) to 50% (Gregg & Samuel, 2008) of the time.…”

Enhanced sensory processing accompanies successful detection of change for real-world sounds

“…This contrasts with the claim by Demany et al (2008Demany et al ( , 2010 that change deafness is not indicative of auditory-specific processing failures. In addition to the N1 modulation, we found a larger P3 for correctly detected changes, which could be a marker of successful change detection, or for more accurate memory updating when changes are successfully detected (Polich, 2004; see also Pavani and Turatto, 2008 for a memory-based explanation of change deafness).…”

Anger superiority effect for change detection and change blindness

“…Corresponding phenomena for change blindness have been found for the auditory (Gregg & Samuel, 2008;Pavani & Turatto, 2008;Vitevitch, 2003), tactile (Auvray, Gallace, Hartcher-O'Brien, Tan, & Spence, 2008;Gallace, Zeeden, Roder, & Spence, 2010;Pritchett, Gallace, & Spence, 2011) and olfactory (Pritchett et al, 2011;Sela & Sobel, 2010) modalities. However, here I focus on change blindness.…”

“…The properties and limitations perceived for visual change blindness may differ from corresponding phenomena in other sensory modalities, e.g. (Pavani & Turatto, 2008), and they may work across different modalities (Auvray, Gallace, Tan, & Spence, 2007;Auvray et al, 2008;Gallace, Auvray, Tan, & Spence, 2006;. Future studies are needed to explore these effects.…”