Intentional switching in auditory selective attention: Exploring attention shifts with different reverberation times

Oberem, Josefa; Seibold, Julia C.; Koch, Iring; Fels, Janina

doi:10.1016/j.heares.2017.12.013

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“…Differences in error rates considering attention transition were negligible, and, as in previous studies (e.g., Nolden et al, 2019; Nolden & Koch, 2017), effects related to congruency were most prominent in the error rates. The results of the present study are in line with previous results by Oberem and colleagues (2014, 2018).…”

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“…The response times revealed a weaker specification of congruency effects. This discrepancy of response times and error rates, especially regarding congruency, is in line with previous work on attentional flexibility (Nolden et al, 2019; Nolden & Koch, 2017; Oberem et al, 2017, 2018). Since the congruency effect does not change significantly for children over the different spatial configurations in RT, it can be assumed that they might not benefit from spatial auditory cues to the same extent as adults.…”

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“…Target’s location now can adopt even more realistic positions such as front and back beside left and right or even more specific positions such as front-right and back-left. Results from this study and further studies using this binaural listening paradigm (Oberem et al, 2017, 2018) revealed a significant effect of the target’s position as well as target–distractor position combination in space. For example, worse performance was found for target and distractor positions in front and back compared to positioning at the left and right sides.…”

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confidence: 55%

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Children’s intentional switching of auditory selective attention in spatial and noisy acoustic environments in comparison to adults.

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Developmental Psychology

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am MainChildren's development and education take place in educational buildings with highly complex acoustic scenes, including spatially distributed target speakers, many surrounding distracting sounds, and general background noises. Auditory selective attention, therefore, is a valuable tool to orient oneself, to focus on specific sound sources, and to extract relevant information. Until now, it is unknown to what extent children have developed the cognitive processes of intentional attention control in spatial situations and how they differ from adults. This work provides a paradigm to examine children's intentional switching of auditory selective attention that also allows to examine effects due to noisy and spatial sound environments presented virtually via headphones. A listening experiment was conducted in Germany with 24 children (6-10 years, 50% female) and 24 young adults (18-26 years, 50% female). First, results revealed higher error rates and lower reaction times in conditions with noise (relative to conditions without noise) for children, but not for adults. This assumes that children are more sensitive to noise and conclude faster with noise trials, taking errors into account. Second, although auditory attention flexibility reflected in attention switch and relevant information selection was comparable between children and adults, it was found that adults benefited from spatial cues when selecting the relevant information. This was not observed to the same extent in children. These results suggest that children's cognitive processes are affected at significantly lower noise levels than adults and that noise effect assessment methods should consider spatial aspects.

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confidence: 91%

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confidence: 55%

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Children’s intentional switching of auditory selective attention in spatial and noisy acoustic environments in comparison to adults.

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Nolden³

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“…Therefore the categories of smaller and greater five are mapped to the left hand buttons and the right hand buttons at the front side of a controller. Furthermore, the direction word presented by the target gives information whether the index finger (in case the direction word is "UP") or the middle finger (in case the direction word is "DOWN")has to be pressed" [136].…”

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“…To study the binaural effects in the intentional switching of auditory selective attention, the dichotic-listening paradigm is gradually extended towards a binaural-listening paradigm representing complex dynamic acoustic scenes in the present thesis [129,44,134,136,45].…”

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Examining auditory selective attention. From dichotic towards realistic environments

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2020

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The aim of the present thesis is to examine the cognitive control mechanisms underlying auditory selective attention by considering the influence of variables that increase the complexity of an auditory scene. Therefore, technical aspects such as dynamic binaural hearing, room acoustics and head movements as well as those that influence the efficiency of cognitive processing are taken into account.Step-by-step the well-established dichotic-listening paradigm is extended into a "realistic" spatial listening paradigm. Conducted empirical surveys are based on a paradigm examining the intentional switching of auditory selective attention. Spoken phrases are simultaneously presented by two speakers to participants from two of eight azimuthal positions. The stimuli are phrases that consist of a single digit (1 to 9, excluding 5), in some experiments followed by either the German direction "UP" or "DOWN". A visual cue indicates the target's spatial position, prior to auditory stimulus onset. Afterwards, participants are asked to identify whether the target number is arithmetically smaller or greater than five and to categorize the direction. Human performance measure differences in reaction times and error rates between the repetition of the target's spatial position and the related switch (i.e. switch costs) describe the loss of efficiency associated with redirecting attention from one target's location to another. To examine whether the irrelevant auditory information is decoded, interference in the processing of task-relevant and taskirrelevant information is created in the paradigm. Using the binaural-listening paradigm, the ability to intentionally switch auditory selective attention is tested when applying different methods of spatial reproduction. Essential differences between real sources, an individual and a nonindividual binaural synthesis reproduced with headphones as well as a binaural synthesis based on Cross-Talk Cancellation are found. This indicates how the loss of individual information reduces the ability to inhibit irrelevant information. As a step towards multi-talker scenarios in realistic environments participants are tested in differently reverberating environments. Switch costs are highly affected by reverberation and the inhibition is also impaired by to be unattended information. Age-related effects are also found when applying the binaural-listening paradigm, indicating difficulties for elderly to suppress processing the distractor's speech. Contents 4.8. Age-related Effects under Reverberation -Experiment VIII . . .

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Selective Binaural Attention and Attention Switching

Fels

Oberem

Koch

2020

Modern Acoustics and Signal Processing

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Intentional switching in auditory selective attention: Exploring attention shifts with different reverberation times

Cited by 6 publications

References 25 publications

Children’s intentional switching of auditory selective attention in spatial and noisy acoustic environments in comparison to adults.

Children’s intentional switching of auditory selective attention in spatial and noisy acoustic environments in comparison to adults.

Examining auditory selective attention. From dichotic towards realistic environments

Selective Binaural Attention and Attention Switching

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