Elastic attention: enhanced, then sharpened response to auditory input as attentional load increases
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Elastic Attention: Enhanced, then Sharpened Response to Auditory Input as Attentional Load Increases
A long debate in selective attention research is whether attention enhances sensory response or sharpens neural tuning by suppressing response to non-target input. In fact, both processes may occur as a function of load: an uncertain listener might use a broad attentional filter to enhance responses to all inputs (i.e., vigilance), yet employ sharpened tuning to focus on hard to discriminate ta...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1662-5161
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2011.00041