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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
773 0 _g2015
_tBrain Research
856 _uhttp://dspace.nal.gov.au/xmlui/bitstream/handle/123456789/283/Evidence%20against%20attentional%20state%20modulating%20scalp%20recorded%20auditory%20brainstem.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
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