ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2019
Auditory Figure-Ground Segregation Is Impaired by High Visual Load.
Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.
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- Predicting the Irrelevant: Neural Effects of Distractor Predictability Depend on Load.The European journal of neuroscience · 2025Article
- Attenuated processing of vowels in the left temporal cortex predicts speech-in-noise perception deficit in children with autism.Journal of neurodevelopmental disorders · 2024Article
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- Performance on stochastic figure-ground perception varies with individual differences in speech-in-noise recognition and working memory capacity.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2023Article
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- Simultaneous auditory agnosia: Systematic description of a new type of auditory segregation deficit following a right hemisphere lesion.Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior · 2021Article
- Visual load does not decrease the auditory steady-state response to 40-Hz amplitude-modulated tones.Psychophysiology · 2020Article
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Abstract
Figure-ground segregation is fundamental to listening in complex acoustic environments. An ongoing debate pertains to whether segregation requires attention or is "automatic" and preattentive. In this magnetoencephalography study, we tested a prediction derived from load theory of attention (e.g., Lavie, 1995) that segregation requires attention but can benefit from the automatic allocation of any "leftover" capacity under low load. Complex auditory scenes were modeled with stochastic figure-ground stimuli (Teki et al., 2013), which occasionally contained repeated frequency component "figures." Naive human participants (both sexes) passively listened to these signals while performing a visual attention task of either low or high load. While clear figure-related neural responses were observed under conditions of low load, high visual load substantially reduced the neural response to the figure in auditory cortex (planum temporale, Heschl's gyrus). We conclude that fundamental figure-ground segregation in hearing is not automatic but draws on resources that are shared across vision and audition.
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