Attentional and Contextual Priors in Sound Perception

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 11; no. 2; p. e0149635
• Main Authors: Wolmetz, Michael, Elhilali, Mounya
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 16.02.2016; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Acoustic frequencies; Adaptation; Adolescent; Adult; Analysis; Attention - physiology; Auditory Perception; Bayes Theorem; Bayesian analysis; Behavior; Biology and Life Sciences; Cues; Environmental statistics; Female; Humans; Male; Models, Biological; Noise; Perception; Physical Sciences; Pitch Perception; Probability; Social Sciences; Sound; Statistical inference; Statistics; Time Factors; Trends; Visual task performance; Vowels; Young Adult; United States; United States > US

Behavioral and neural studies of selective attention have consistently demonstrated that explicit attentional cues to particular perceptual features profoundly alter perception and performance. The statistics of the sensory environment can also provide cues about what perceptual features to expect,...