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Exploring the benefit of auditory spatial continuity

Year: 2010

Type: article

Abstract: Continuity of spatial location was recently shown to improve the ability to identify and recall a sequence of target digits presented in a mixture of confusable maskers [Best et al. (2008). Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 105, 13174-13178]. Three follow-up experiments were conducted to explore the basis of this improvement. The results suggest that the benefits of spatial continuity cannot be attributed to (a) the ability to plan where to direct attention in advance; (b) freedom from having to redirect attention across large distances; or (c) the challenge of filtering out signals that are confusable with the target.

Source: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

DOI: 10.1121/1.3431093

Authors: Virginia Best, Barbara G. Shinn-Cunningham, Erol J. Ozmeral, Norbert Kopčo

Institutions: Boston University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Technical University of Košice

Language: English

Topic: Neuroscience and Music Perception

Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience

Field: Neuroscience

Domain: Life Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

Funders: Office of Naval Research, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders

Award: G5390473628