TY - JOUR
T1 - Auditory attention - focusing the searchlight on sound
AU - Fritz, Jonathan B.
AU - Elhilali, Mounya
AU - David, Stephen V.
AU - Shamma, Shihab A.
N1 - Funding Information:
We gratefully acknowledge funding from NIH R01 DC005779.
PY - 2007/8
Y1 - 2007/8
N2 - Some fifty years after the first physiological studies of auditory attention, the field is now ripening, with exciting recent insights into the psychophysics, psychology, and neural basis of auditory attention. Current research seeks to unravel the complex interactions of pre-attentive and attentive processing of the acoustic scene, the role of auditory attention in mediating receptive-field plasticity in both auditory spatial and auditory feature processing, the contrasts and parallels between auditory and visual attention pathways and mechanisms, the interplay of bottom-up and top-down attentional mechanisms, the influential role of attention, goals, and expectations in shaping auditory processing, and the orchestration of diverse attentional effects at multiple levels from the cochlea to the cortex.
AB - Some fifty years after the first physiological studies of auditory attention, the field is now ripening, with exciting recent insights into the psychophysics, psychology, and neural basis of auditory attention. Current research seeks to unravel the complex interactions of pre-attentive and attentive processing of the acoustic scene, the role of auditory attention in mediating receptive-field plasticity in both auditory spatial and auditory feature processing, the contrasts and parallels between auditory and visual attention pathways and mechanisms, the interplay of bottom-up and top-down attentional mechanisms, the influential role of attention, goals, and expectations in shaping auditory processing, and the orchestration of diverse attentional effects at multiple levels from the cochlea to the cortex.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.conb.2007.07.011
DO - 10.1016/j.conb.2007.07.011
M3 - Review article
C2 - 17714933
AN - SCOPUS:35048901937
SN - 0959-4388
VL - 17
SP - 437
EP - 455
JO - Current Opinion in Neurobiology
JF - Current Opinion in Neurobiology
IS - 4
ER -