Halliday, LF;
Moore, DR;
Taylor, JL;
Amitay, S;
(2011)
Dimension-specific attention directs learning and listening on auditory training tasks.
Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics
, 73
(5)
1329 - 1335.
10.3758/s13414-011-0148-0.
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Abstract
The relative contributions of bottom-up versus top-down sensory inputs to auditory learning are not well established. In our experiment, listeners were instructed to perform either a frequency discrimination (FD) task ("FD-train group") or an intensity discrimination (ID) task ("ID-train group") during training on a set of physically identical tones that were impossible to discriminate consistently above chance, allowing us to vary top-down attention whilst keeping bottom-up inputs fixed. A third, control group did not receive any training. Only the FD-train group improved on a FD probe following training, whereas all groups improved on ID following training. However, only the ID-train group also showed changes in performance accuracy as a function of interval with training on the ID task. These findings suggest that top-down, dimension-specific attention can direct auditory learning, even when this learning is not reflected in conventional performance measures of threshold change.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Dimension-specific attention directs learning and listening on auditory training tasks |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.3758/s13414-011-0148-0 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13414-011-0148-0 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License (CC BY-NC) which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. |
| Keywords: | Auditory processing, Training, Learning, Attention, Frequency discrimination, Intensity discrimination, Order effects, IDENTICAL STIMULI, DIFFERENCE LIMEN, DISCRIMINATION, FEEDBACK, REMINDER, TIME |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1315071 |
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