ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2013
Octave effect in auditory attention.
Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- A mechanoelectrical mechanism for detection of sound envelopes in the hearing organ.Nature communications · 2018Article
- Harmonic template neurons in primate auditory cortex underlying complex sound processing.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2017Article
- Inconsistent Effect of Arousal on Early Auditory Perception.Frontiers in psychology · 2017Article
- Auditory perception modulated by word reading.Experimental brain research · 2016Article
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- Robust and Efficient Online Auditory Psychophysics.Trends in hearingArticle
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Abstract
After hearing a tone, the human auditory system becomes more sensitive to similar tones than to other tones. Current auditory models explain this phenomenon by a simple bandpass attention filter. Here, we demonstrate that auditory attention involves multiple pass-bands around octave-related frequencies above and below the cued tone. Intriguingly, this "octave effect" not only occurs for physically presented tones, but even persists for the missing fundamental in complex tones, and for imagined tones. Our results suggest neural interactions combining octave-related frequencies, likely located in nonprimary cortical regions. We speculate that this connectivity scheme evolved from exposure to natural vibrations containing octave-related spectral peaks, e.g., as produced by vocal cords.
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