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Why do we need attention?

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Because we can’t pay attention to everything so we have to pick and choose what parts of the world we process more and what we process less

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What does the attentional filter do

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It blocks undesired information (usually like in a dichotic listening test)

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What is inattentional blindness

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You don’t see something even if you are looking at it. You only see it if you attend to it

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What is an attentional blink

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“closing” attention. Task experiment where you get worse at finding one thing if you also have to look for the other thing

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What is change blindness

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You don’t notice changes

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What were the main results from the moran and desimone study

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Cells have preferential responses in area V4 based on what is being paid attention to. More activity depends on where you are focusing. Attention changes the activity in the brain

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What did O’Craven et al find

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That our attentional system is active to motion in MT areas when things are moving

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What does the inferemporal cortex pay special attention to

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Object recognition and form/color

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What does the parietal cortex pay special attention to

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“Where” and motion

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How does attention solve the binding problem

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Feature integration theory

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What is the preattentive stage

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It is where primitives (lines and circles) automatically and effortlessly pop outW

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What is the focused attention stage

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Where the primitives are combined. These require effort and attention

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What is a feature search

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In the preattentive stage. Stimuli not bound together

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What is a conjunction search

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In the focused attention stage. Attention binds object features together

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What is the biased competition model

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Stimuli compete for attention. This competition can be biased, often toward the object that is currently attended in the visual field, or alternatively toward the object most relevant to behavior.

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Attentional capture

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New objects attract attention

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Value driven attention

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Highest value color is most distracting

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Does attention stay stagant?

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No, it spreads through an object

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What are some brain areas involved in attentional control

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Frontal eye field
Posterior Parietal Cortex (damage produces unilateral spatial neglect)

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How are pure tones plotted

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In a sine wave

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What does the amplitude represent on a sine wave

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How much pressure changes

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What does the wavelength represent on a sine wave

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Time/distance
Frequency/hz (pitch)

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What range of sounds can humans hear

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20 hz to 10,000,000 hz

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What is the difference in the charts of a pure tone and a complex tone

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Pure tone is true sine wave
Complex tone is not

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What is a fundemental frequency
The lowest frequency that you can hear in a complex tone. Has the highest amp
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What kinds of frequencies does noise canceling work for
Lower frequencies
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What is a fourier spectrum
a complex waveform made up of multiple waves
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What is a harmonic
Its the higher frequencies after the fundamental freq.
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What do different instruments make different sounds if they are playing the same note
Because the note is being held differently. it either drops off or is sustained
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How does distance relate to dB
you HAVE to keep distance in mind or else your measurements will get screwed uo
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what is the equation for sound pressure and amp
pressure/p (sub)O 20 log (P/pO
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What happens if you add together two sounds with the same dB
It will increase by 6dB ex: 80dB + 80dB = 86dB
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Frequency
pitch
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Amplitude
Loudness
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Waveform
Timbre
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What does loudness depend on
Amplitude and frequency
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What is an audibility curve
The abs. threshold of the tones
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Can you still hear at 0dB
YES! It is just how its defined.
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Where does human speech fall in hz
~1,000 - 10,000
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Where is greatest displacement caused on the basilar membrane
At he apex where low frequency pressure waves are
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What is the envelope of traveling waves
A chance in the attack rate over time
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What signals do inner hair cells send
release of neurotransmitters
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What signals do outer hair cells send
a motile responses
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What is place coding for frequency
That hair cells signal different frequencies depending on location
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What does a frequency tuning curve represent
It gives evidence for place coding by showing the frequencies that hair cells respond to Sharper curves are higher freq More rounded curves are lower freq
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What frequencies does the apex stimulate
Low freq
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What freq does the base/stapes stimulate
High freq
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What frequency does white noise have
Equal energy at all freq
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Where does the effect of masking extend
It extends more to higher freq so may be harder to hear masked high freq notes
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How high can phase locking extend to
can etexnd to 4000-5000 hz
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What is phase locking
In a sound wave, hair cells can't fire at every single peak because its too much energy so instead, seperately fibers peak at different times and if you listen to them all TOGETHER it becomes the same initial sound wave. The timing is a certain amount of milliseconds apart and its locked to that time
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What is timbre
an example of the tone envelope. its why musical instruments all sound different
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What is tone chroma
Pitch class (like middle C)
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What is the tritone paradox
It is hard to tell if a C is higher than F# (a half octave). Some say this depends on where you grew up
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What does periodicity pitch tell us
That we perceive the fundemental frequency to be there even if it is not
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Why do things sound different when played backwards
Because of the tone envelope since attack and decay rates would be reversed
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The anterior ROI responds to ______ tasks
What
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The posterior ROI responds to ______ tasks
Where
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What is azimuth
Its the left/right plane of things we can hear
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What is interaural level difference (ILD)
An acoutsic shadow is cased from our head that shadows one ear. It's about the different sound levels entering the ear
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What is interaural time difference (ITD)
I helps us localize sound because whatever reaches the ear faster must be closer to us
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What does having our head straight looking forward do to ITD
It makes it very hard to tell where the sound is coming from so you have to rotate your head
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Do we notice echoes
Not really. They reflect off the room on everything that isn't the sound source
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How does elevation help us localize sound
We can detect changes in elevation through the pinna. Experiment where the pinna was artificially blocked and couldn't perceive elevation but could perceive azimuth. got better over time
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Would putting on headphones effect auditory localization
It would destroy elevation cues but not azimuth
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What do we do where there are audio cues and visual cues at the same time
we go with the visual cue
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Do audio cues effect our visual perception
Yes. Sound can alter perceived motion
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What is grouping by harmonic coherence
All multiples of the fundemental freq. are perceived a s a unit and not seperate sound waves
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What is group by synchronous change
We group together sounds that move together
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What is auditory stream segreation or pitch streaming
When tones are close in frequency they sound like a galloping pattern of one sound stream. but when the freq are far apart it sounds like two different sound streams
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What is grouping by similiary
We group tones that sound the same together. If there is a flank tone it will mess up our perception
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What is grouping by temporal proximity
Grouping together based on speech and being close together in time. in slow speeds the sounds sound like one wave.
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What is perceptual completion of occluded sounds
We image a sound being there even if it's not actually there because another sound is playing "over" it
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What is a formant
Its a clump on a graph indicating the sound wave emerging from the mouth. Dif vowels have dif formants @ dif freq
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What do formant transitions depict
Consonants
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what is coarticulation
One phoneme can influence the acoustic properties of another. basically our words flow right into one another
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What is the segementing problem
We don't have gaps between words
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How do we solve the segmenting problem
With phoneme transition probabilities. We know which phonemes probably end a word
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What is the variability problem
Children and men would sound different
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What is categorical perception
Voice onset time is a cue to voicing
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What is voice onset time
The interval between the initial bursts of frequencies and the onset of voicing. difference between Pa (longer voice onset time) and Ba
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What is phonemic restoration effect
We use knowledge of the language to augment our perception. We will in gaps. We do this better when we can lip read
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What is the effect of context on speech perception
It's easy to misperceive sound if there is conflicting context (like the cat example). When we don't segment correctly, speech perception becomes very hard
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What are the effects of syntax and semantics on perception in noise
When the sentence is grammatically correct and follows a clear meaning, it is much easier to pick out the words. When it's not, it's very hard

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