Auditory Attention

Question 1

Selective attention - Auditory

Answer 1

Mental selecting or filtering information
- Hearing selection is a cognitive process
- Research focused on overload
- Deliberate, controlled way

Question 2

Dual task procedure

Answer 2

Two different tasks at once, focusing on one message
- Easier to filter out the unattended message if there are different people speaking
Shadowing tasks (repeating)

Question 3

Filter theories

Answer 3

Auditory attention work as a filter
- 2 theories, depend on when we filter things out in the process

Question 4

Early Selection

Answer 4

At early stage of processing, based on physical characteristics of the stimul
- Unattended stimuli not fully processed
- 1 message gets through the filtering process

Question 5

Early selection - Problems

Answer 5

• Being at a party, still noticing your name being called
• Unattended info can slip through

Question 6

Late selection

Answer 6

• Process most inputs with a low level of analysis
  Based on semantic characteristics of the stimuli
• Whats important for now is what we select, and it affects our behaviour

Question 7

Auditory search

Answer 7

Focusing attention within auditory scene
- Where is the sound coming from
- Whats the source
- Overlap with visual search

• Looking for your phone, hearing a crying baby

Question 8

Inattentional deafness

Answer 8

We process less auditory information than we often think we do
“Im a gorilla!”, female and male voices - Study