ArticleQuarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006)2021
Common principles underlie the fluctuation of auditory and visual sustained attention.
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- Microsaccade Direction Reveals the Variation in Auditory Selective Attention Processes.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Functional brain networks predicting sustained attention are not specific to perceptual modality.Network neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- Malleability and fluidity of time perception.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Prefrontal GABA and glutamate-glutamine levels affect sustained attention.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2023Article
- A generalizable connectome-based marker of in-scan sustained attention in neurodiverse youth.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2023Article
- Distracted to a fault: Attention, actions, and time perception.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2023Article
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- Dynamic Transitions Between Brain States Predict Auditory Attentional Fluctuations.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- Neural signatures of attentional engagement during narratives and its consequences for event memory.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
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Abstract
Sustained attention plays an important role in adaptive behaviours in everyday activities. As previous studies have mostly focused on vision, and attentional resources have been thought to be specific to sensory modalities, it is still unclear how mechanisms of attentional fluctuations overlap between visual and auditory modalities. To reduce the effects of sudden stimulus onsets, we developed a new gradual-onset continuous performance task (gradCPT) in the auditory domain and compared dynamic fluctuation of sustained attention in vision and audition. In the auditory gradCPT, participants were instructed to listen to a stream of narrations and judge the gender of each narration. In the visual gradCPT, they were asked to observe a stream of scenery images and indicate whether the scene was a city or mountain. Our within-individual comparison revealed that auditory and visual attention are similar in terms of the false alarm rate and dynamic properties including fluctuation frequency. Absolute timescales of the fluctuation in the two modalities were comparable, notwithstanding the difference in stimulus onset asynchrony. The results suggest that fluctuations of visual and auditory attention are underpinned by common principles and support models with a more central, modality-general controller.
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