ArticleHearing research2014
Selective attention reduces physiological noise in the external ear canals of humans. II: visual attention.
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- Cochlear activity in silent cue-target intervals shows a theta-rhythmic pattern and is correlated to attentional alpha and theta modulations.BMC biology · 2021Article
- No Change in Medial Olivocochlear Efferent Activity during an Auditory or Visual Task: Dual Evidence from Otoacoustic Emissions and Event-Related Potentials.Brain sciences · 2020Article
- No effects of attention or visual perceptual load on cochlear function, as measured with stimulus-frequency otoacoustic emissions.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2019Article
- Examining replicability of an otoacoustic measure of cochlear function during selective attention.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2018Article
- Auditory Attention Reduced Ear-Canal Noise in Humans by Reducing Subject Motion, Not by Medial Olivocochlear Efferent Inhibition: Implications for Measuring Otoacoustic Emissions During a Behavioral Task.Frontiers in systems neuroscience · 2018Article
- Heightened visual attention does not affect inner ear function as measured by otoacoustic emissions.PeerJ · 2017Article
- Changes in otoacoustic emissions during selective auditory and visual attention.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2015Article
- Selective attention reduces physiological noise in the external ear canals of humans. I: auditory attention.Hearing research · 2014Article
- The Association Between Physiological Noise Levels and Speech Understanding in Noise.Ear and hearingArticle
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Abstract
Human subjects performed in several behavioral conditions requiring, or not requiring, selective attention to visual stimuli. Specifically, the attentional task was to recognize strings of digits that had been presented visually. A nonlinear version of the stimulus-frequency otoacoustic emission (SFOAE), called the nSFOAE, was collected during the visual presentation of the digits. The segment of the physiological response discussed here occurred during brief silent periods immediately following the SFOAE-evoking stimuli. For all subjects tested, the physiological-noise magnitudes were substantially weaker (less noisy) during the tasks requiring the most visual attention. Effect sizes for the differences were >2.0. Our interpretation is that cortico-olivo influences adjusted the magnitude of efferent activation during the SFOAE-evoking stimulation depending upon the attention task in effect, and then that magnitude of efferent activation persisted throughout the silent period where it also modulated the physiological noise present. Because the results were highly similar to those obtained when the behavioral conditions involved auditory attention, similar mechanisms appear to operate both across modalities and within modalities. Supplementary measurements revealed that the efferent activation was spectrally global, as it was for auditory attention.
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