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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Fabrice B. R. Parmentier, Laura Gallego, Antonia Micucci, Alicia Leiva, Pilar Andres, Murray T. Maybery
Summary: Two experiments showed that environmental context, even in the form of task-irrelevant background pictures, can affect task performance in visual categorization tasks, indicating that sensory predictions are context-dependent.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2022)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Fabrice B. R. Parmentier, Alicia Leiva, Pilar Andres, Murray T. Maybery
Summary: It has been established that task-irrelevant auditory stimuli can disrupt continuous categorization tasks and result in slower responses. This disruption is likely due to the violation of sensory predictions. This study examined the impact of the omission of a standard sound on response times and found that different sounds and sound omissions affect performance through distinct mechanisms.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Nicole Wetzel, Dunja Kunke, Andreas Widmann
Summary: The study found that children show increased early processing of task-irrelevant information and higher attention to sounds when interacting with a tablet PC compared to a human partner. This indicates potential direct effects of digital media on children's perception and attention. Further research is needed to develop specific recommendations for digital interactive learning programs based on these findings.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2021)
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Neurosciences
Vesa Putkinen, Katri Saarikivi, Tsz Man Vanessa Chan, Mari Tervaniemi
Summary: The study found that children and adolescents with musical training performed better in categorization tasks, were more efficient in processing distracting sounds, and showed faster inhibition and set shifting abilities compared to their untrained peers.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
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Construction & Building Technology
Jinjing Ke, Ming Zhang, Xiaowei Luo, Jiayu Chen
Summary: In a construction environment requiring high attention, distraction leads to unsafe behavior and decreased safety performance. This study used EEG to examine the correlation between distraction and brain activity, suggesting that beta and gamma powers in specific brain regions can differentiate between focused and distracted states, providing objective evaluation of sustained attention and attention failures. These indicators can also guide attention training and enhance control over work errors in high-risk workplaces.
AUTOMATION IN CONSTRUCTION
(2021)
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Clinical Neurology
Yessica Martinez-Serrato, Mayela Rodriguez-Violante, E. Sebastian Lelo de Larrea-Mancera, Alejandra Ruiz-Contreras, Yaneth Rodriguez-Agudelo, Josefina Ricardo-Garcell, Rodolfo Solis-Vivanco
Summary: This study found that patients with left-side onset of Parkinson's disease exhibit impaired involuntary attention. This impairment may emerge in the early stages of the disease and progress in patients with right-side onset.
CLINICAL NEUROPHYSIOLOGY
(2023)
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Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Samantha J. Gustafson, Loren Nelson, Jack W. Silcox
Summary: This study examined the effect of distraction on speech recognition and listening effort, and assessed the impact of distraction on resource allocation during listening. The results showed that distraction significantly reduced speech recognition in low-perceptual load conditions (i.e., quiet), but had no effect in high-perceptual load conditions (i.e., noise). In terms of listening effort, distraction resulted in longer response times regardless of listening condition.
Article
Neurosciences
Jana Tegelbeckers, Andre Brechmann, Carolin Breitling-Ziegler, Bjoern Bonath, Hans-Henning Flechtner, Kerstin Krauel
Summary: The presentation of novel sounds can improve attentional performance in patients with ADHD, while familiar sounds can lead to similar improvements but with increased activity in a specific brain region in these patients. The activation of the fronto-temporoparietal ventral attention network following novel sounds is related to improved response speed, suggesting a mechanism by which short distractions can enhance attentional performance.
FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Nicole Wetzel, Andreas Widmann, Florian Scharf
Summary: This study found that new and novel sounds can easily distract attention, especially in children. Children are more sensitive to novel sounds, while adults are relatively less distracted. As children grow older, their attention control mechanisms gradually mature.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2021)
Article
Neurosciences
Alexander J. Pascoe, Zakia Z. Haque, Ranshikha Samandra, Daniel J. Fehring, Farshad A. Mansouri
Summary: This study investigated the effects of classical music and white noise on conflict processing using the Stroop test and Wisconsin card sorting test. The findings showed that white noise increased the response time difference between congruent and incongruent trials, impairing performance, while classical music did not affect cognitive functions associated with conflict processing. These results suggest that further research is needed before implementing white noise into neuropsychiatric care.
FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Thomas Pfeffer, Adrian Ponce-Alvarez, Konstantinos Tsetsos, Thomas Meindertsma, Christoffer Julius Gahnstroem, Ruud Lucas van den Brink, Guido Nolte, Andreas Karl Engel, Gustavo Deco, Tobias Hinrich Donner
Summary: The study reveals distinct effects of catecholamines and acetylcholine on interactions between cortical areas in the human brain. While an increase in catecholamine levels enhances interactions, an increase in acetylcholine levels decreases interactions. This can be explained by differential changes in two circuit properties.
Article
Communication
Yi. Liao, Dallin R. Adams, Helen M. Lillie, Jakob D. Jensen
Summary: The study found that situating the advocated behavior in an incongruent context can effectively persuade audiences in information-saturated environments. This strategy can increase behavioral intentions through increased attention, novelty, and memorability.
JOURNAL OF HEALTH COMMUNICATION
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Jessica Massonnie, Philippe Frasseto, Terry Ng-Knight, Katie Gilligan-Lee, Natasha Kirkham, Denis Mareschal
Summary: Environmental noise, a major pollution source, has significant effects on children, especially those with lower effortful control skills, who are more sensitive to classroom noise. This research highlights the importance of understanding individual differences in noise sensitivity among elementary school children.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
(2022)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Flavio G. Oliveira, Joaquim T. Tapisso, Sophie von Merten, Leszek Rychlik, Paulo J. Fonseca, Maria da Luz Mathias
Summary: The development of urban areas and increased anthropogenic noise have negatively impacted the natural behavior of animals, particularly small mammals. Despite some successfully adapting to urban environments, urban and rural shrews show different behaviors, with both populations exhibiting similar responses to traffic noise and white noise, but not to owl calls. Urbanization induces long-term changes in the general activity of small mammals like the greater white-toothed shrew, but their short-term behavioral response to sound disturbance remains consistent across populations.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Hung-Yu Lin
Summary: This study investigates the effects of white noise on attention and behavior in preschoolers, and finds that white noise can effectively improve attention performance and reduce hyperactive behaviors in children with ADHD, but it is not beneficial and can be burdensome for typically developing children.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
(2022)
Article
Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Erich Schroeger, Urte Roeber
Summary: The study found that the Mismatch Negativity (MMN) system is powerful in establishing deterministic regularities but fails with a simple stochastic regularity. When a sound deviates from the predicted ones by the model, MMN is elicited, reflecting a prediction error. The research highlights the difference in the brain's ability to encode deterministic and non-deterministic regularities through auditory processing.
Review
Psychology, Mathematical
Betina Korka, Andreas Widmann, Florian Waszak, Alvaro Darriba, Erich Schroeger
Summary: According to the ideomotor theory, action can produce desired sensory outcomes, with action intentions resulting in reliable top-down predictions that modulate auditory brain responses. The extended auditory event representation system explains the effects of action intention on auditory processing and allows for studying the differences and commonalities with regularity-based predictions, guiding future research on action and perception.
PSYCHONOMIC BULLETIN & REVIEW
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Alessandro Tavano, Burkhard Maess, David Poeppel, Erich Schroeger
Summary: The study suggests that both spectral predictability and temporal regularity play a role in entrainment, governed by neural phase control.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Gloria G. Parras, Lorena Casado-Roman, Erich Schroeger, Manuel S. Malmierca
Summary: The study found functional specialization in different fields of the rat auditory cortex, with the posterior auditory field showing the largest prediction error effects and other fields dominantly affected by repetition suppression effects. Results suggest that different AC fields have varying roles in context-dependent processing and being sensitive to stimulus-dependent effects in deviance detection.
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Tjerk T. Dercksen, Andreas Widmann, Florian Scharf, Nicole Wetzel
Summary: Action is an important way for children to learn about the world. Recent theories suggest that action is accompanied by sensory prediction of its effects, which can be revealed by omission responses. This study investigated omission-related brain responses in children and found that although there were developmental differences, children were able to implement specific and unspecific predictions as flexibly as adults.
DEVELOPMENTAL COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Paula Rios-Lopez, Andreas Widmann, Aurelie Bidet-Caulet, Nicole Wetzel
Summary: Listening to task-irrelevant speech can disrupt attention and performance. In this study, participants were exposed to meaningful and non-meaningful speech while performing a non-linguistic attention task. Results showed that semantic processing of the native language consumed attentional resources, resulting in reduced processing of the task sounds.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Andreas Maedebach, Andreas Widmann, Melina Posch, Erich Schroeger, Joerg D. Jescheniak
Summary: This study investigated the ERP signature of phonological coactivation in the picture-word interference task. The results revealed differential brain responses to related and unrelated distractors, with an early effect indicating phonological processing and a later effect whose functional significance remains unclear.
JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Florian Scharf, Andreas Widmann, Carolina Bonmassar, Nicole Wetzel
Summary: This article introduces how to conduct an amplitude difference analysis of event-related potentials (ERPs) based on temporal principal component analysis (PCA), with a focus on developmental research. It demonstrates how separate PCAs can be used to address the measurement non-invariance issue between different age groups, and provides a method to rescale the results to original units for inferential statistics. The article also discusses typical challenges and potential limitations in the analysis process.
DEVELOPMENTAL COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Sindram Volkmer, Nicole Wetzel, Andreas Widmann, Florian Scharf
Summary: This study investigates the short-term dynamics of distraction control in children and adults and finds age differences in distraction control. The analysis of short-term dynamics provides valuable insights into the development of attention control and may explain inconsistent findings regarding attention deficit disorders in children.
DEVELOPMENTAL SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Wai Ying Chung, Alvaro Darriba, Betina Korka, Andreas Widmann, Erich Schroger, Florian Waszak
Summary: This study compared the differences in action-effect prediction among three types of intentional actions: selecting what to do, selecting when to act, and selecting whether to perform the action or not. Results showed that regardless of the decision made, there were significant P2 differences between standard and deviant tones reflecting the formation of action-effect predictions. Furthermore, the prediction effect was not observable in non-action trials within the "whether" condition, suggesting an action-specific prediction process.
Article
Psychology, Biological
Hanna Ringer, Erich Schroeger, Sabine Grimm
Summary: It is remarkable how human listeners can perceive periodicity in noise, which lacks obvious physical cues. Previous research suggested that listeners rely on short temporally local and idiosyncratic features to perceptually segment periodic noise sequences. The present study aimed to examine the consistency of perceptual segmentation within and between listeners. Results showed that the consistency was stronger for interleaved periodic sequences, likely due to reduced temporal jitter. Additionally, the finding that certain noise sequences were segmented consistently across listeners challenges the assumption that the features are necessarily idiosyncratic.
Article
Neurosciences
Andreas Widmann, Erich Schroeger
Summary: This study investigated how the human brain responds to sounds produced by listeners themselves and found that different types of sounds trigger different brain responses.
FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Hanna Ringer, Erich Schroeger, Sabine Grimm
Summary: Perceptual learning is a powerful mechanism for enhancing perceptual abilities and forming memory representations of unfamiliar sounds. The current study examined how the learning of random acoustic patterns is influenced by pattern repetition regularity and listener attention. The findings demonstrate that memory-related effects are observed even during the first occurrence of patterns, especially when listeners pay attention to the sounds.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Psychiatry
Tjerk T. T. Dercksen, Andreas Widmann, Nicole Wetzel
Summary: This study aimed to investigate the pupil's response to unexpected stimulus omissions in order to better understand surprise and orienting of attention resulting from prediction violation. The results revealed that omission responses were observed in both auditory and somatosensory modalities in the 88%-condition compared to motor-control. The discussion suggests that these findings demonstrate predictive models in brain processing and point to the involvement of subcortical structures in the omission response.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY
(2023)