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040 | _cNational Acoustic Laboratories | ||
100 | _aVarghese, Leonard | ||
245 | _aEvidence against attentional state modulating scalp-recorded auditory brainstem steady-state responses | ||
520 | 3 | _aAuditory brainstemresponses(ABRs)andtheirsteady-statecounterpart(subcorticalsteady-state responses,SSSRs)aregenerallythoughttobeinsensitivetocognitivedemands.However,a handfulofstudiesreportthatSSSRsaremodulated dependingonthesubject'sfocusofattention, either towardsorawayfromanauditorystimulus. Here,weexploredwhetherattentionalfocus affectstheenvelope-followingresponse(EFR),whichisaparticularkindofSSSR,andifso, whethertheeffectsarespecific towhichsoundelementsinasoundmixtureasubjectisattending (selectiveauditoryattentionalmodulation),specific toattendedsensoryinput(inter-modal attentionalmodulation),orinsensitivetoattentional focus.WecomparedthestrengthofEFR- stimulusphaselockinginhumanlistenersundervarioustasks:listeningtoamonauralstimulus, selectively attendingtoaparticularearduringdichotic stimuluspresentation,andattendingto visualstimuliwhileignoringdichoticauditory inputs.Weobservednosystematicchangesinthe EFR acrossexperimentalmanipulations,eventhoughcorticalEEGrevealedattention-related modulations ofalphaactivityduringthetask. We concludethatattentionaleffects,ifany,on humansubcorticalrepresentation ofsoundscannotbeobservedrobustlyusingEFRs. | |
650 | _aFrequency-following response FFR Envelope-following response Attention Auditory processing | ||
700 | _aHariM.Bharadwaj, | ||
700 | _aBarbaraG.Shinn-Cunningham | ||
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