Contributions of Sensory Coding and Attentional Control to Individual Differences in Performance in Spatial Auditory Selective Attention Tasks

• Published in: Frontiers in human neuroscience Vol. 10; p. 530
• Main Authors: Dai, Lengshi, Shinn-Cunningham, Barbara G.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland Frontiers Research Foundation 20.10.2016; Frontiers Media S.A
• Subjects: Aging; Attention; Auditory system; Communication; cortical; envelope following response; event-related potential; Event-related potentials; Executive function; Hearing loss; individual differences; Neuroscience; Noise; Scalp; selective attention; Somatosensory cortex; Sound; Studies; subcortical; Trends; subcortical; simultaneous measurement; cortical; event-related potential; selective attention; envelope following response; individual differences
• ISSN: 1662-5161; 1662-5161
• DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2016.00530

Listeners with normal hearing thresholds (NHTs) differ in their ability to steer attention to whatever sound source is important. This ability depends on top-down executive control, which modulates the sensory representation of sound in the cortex. Yet, this sensory representation also depends on th...