Auditory search asymmetry

Author

Sugita, Y. ; Suzuki, Y. ; Sone, T.

Author_Institution

Precursory Res. for Embryonic Sci., Japan Sci. & Technol. Cooperation, Japan

Volume

6

fYear

1998

fDate

29 Oct-1 Nov 1998

Firstpage

3126

Abstract

Auditory search tasks were given to examine serial and parallel processing in auditory perception. The time required to detect a frequency modulated (FM) sound was hardly affected by the number of destructive pure tones. However, the search time for a pure tone was increased with the number of FM sounds. The same results were obtained when the pure tones were presented In conjunction with amplitude modulated (AM) sounds as well as with band noises. These results indicate that the auditory system is also mediated by pre-attentive and attentive processes

Keywords

hearing; loudness; amplitude modulated sounds; attentive processes; auditory perception; auditory search asymmetry; auditory search tasks; band noises; frequency modulated sound; number of sounds; parallel processing; pre-attentive processes; pure tone; search time; serial processing; Acoustic noise; Amplitude modulation; Auditory system; Electronic mail; Embryo; Frequency modulation; Laboratories; Noise generators; Object detection; Parallel processing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1998. Proceedings of the 20th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Hong Kong

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5164-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.1998.746155

Filename

746155