Auditory Attentional Capture: Effects of Singleton Distractor Sounds

Autor/inn/en	Dalton, Polly; Lavie, Nilli
Titel	Auditory Attentional Capture: Effects of Singleton Distractor Sounds
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 30 (2004) 1, S.180-193 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0096-1523
Schlagwörter	Attention; Auditory Perception; Acoustics; Auditory Stimuli; Task Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Aufmerksamkeit; Auditive Wahrnehmung; Akustische Wahrnehmung; Akustik; Auditive Stimulation; Aufgabenanalyse
Abstract	The phenomenon of attentional capture by a unique yet irrelevant singleton distractor has typically been studied in visual search. In this article, the authors examine whether a similar phenomenon occurs in the auditory domain. Participants searched sequences of sounds for targets defined by frequency, intensity, or duration. The presence of a singleton distractor that was unique on an irrelevant dimension (e.g., a low-frequency singleton in search for a target of high intensity) was associated with search costs in both detection and discrimination tasks. However, if the singleton feature coincided with the target item, search was facilitated. These results establish the phenomenon of auditory attentional capture. (Author).
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