Defining attention from an auditory perspective. Issue 1 (1st June 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Noyce, Abigail L.; Kwasa, Jasmine A. C.; Shinn‐Cunningham, Barbara G.
• Other Names: Wu Wayne guestEditor.; Fischer Anna guestEditor.
• Is Part Of: Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Volume 14:Issue 1(2023)
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• Publication Date: 2022-06-01
• Subjects: auditory attention -- cortical attention networks -- endogenous attention -- exogenous attention; Cognitive science -- Periodicals; 153.05
• DOI: 10.1002/wcs.1610
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1939-5086

Abstract

Abstract: Attention prioritizes certain information at the expense of other information in ways that are similar across vision, audition, and other sensory modalities. It influences how—and even what—information is represented and processed, affecting brain activity at every level. Much of the core research into cognitive and neural mechanisms of attention has used visual tasks. However, the same top‐down, object‐based, and bottom‐up attentional processes shape auditory perception, largely through the same underlying, cognitive networks. This article is categorized under: Psychology > Attention Abstract : In settings with multiple sources, attention acts to mediate what object (estimate of an external, physical source) gets processed in detail. Attention depends on bottom‐up salience of the competing sources, top‐down volitional focus of the observer, and object‐based perceptual organization of the sensory inputs both over time and across different peripheral sensory channels.