Gepubliceerd in:
01-05-2014 | Editorial
Editorial for special issue: “Auditory attention: merging paradigms and perspectives”
Auteurs:
Alexandra Bendixen, Iring Koch
Gepubliceerd in:
Psychological Research
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Uitgave 3/2014
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Excerpt
How can we be so absorbed into some activity that we fail to hear our name being called, while some minutes later we perfectly understand a whispering voice? Questions like this tap into the issue of auditory attention. As in any other modality, information processing in audition is shaped by the listener’s current goals. Consequently, perception of and responses to sound depend on inner states as much as on physical stimulus input. Diverse phenomena of auditory attention along the perception–action cycle have been addressed in various research groups. The field must, however, be described as somewhat scattered. In this special issue, we aim to provide an overview of the different research lines by bringing together 12 different perspectives on auditory attention. The 12 contributions comprise 5 review articles and 7 papers reporting original data. …