Selective Attention Fails to Alter the Dichotic Listening Lag Effect: Evidence That the Lag Effect Is Preattentional

• Published in: Brain and language Vol. 71; no. 3; pp. 373 - 390
• Main Authors: Wood, Stacey, Hiscock, Merrill, Widrig, Mark
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: San Diego, CA Elsevier Inc 15.02.2000; Elsevier
• Subjects: Adult; Attention; Attention - physiology; Auditory Localization; Auditory Perception; Biological and medical sciences; Dichotic Listening Tests; Female; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Humans; Key Words: auditory masking; Language; Male; Perceptual Masking - physiology; Phonetics; Production and perception of spoken language; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Reaction Time; sound localization; Sound Localization - physiology; Speech Perception - physiology; Syllables; temporal processing; Time Perception - physiology; temporal processing; Key Words: auditory masking; sound localization; Human; Dichotic audition; Stimulus localization; Auditory attention; Preattention; Cognition; Space perception; Verbal perception; Time; Experimental study; Selective attention; Divided attention; Language; Masking

Berlin et al. (1973) reported that either stimulus from a dichotic pair of consonant–vowel syllables is processed preferentially when its presentation is delayed by 30–60 ms. In the first of three experiments with 60 normal right-handed adults, we replicated the Berlin et al. “lag effect,” but only...