ArticlePloS one2023
Selective auditory attention modulates cortical responses to sound location change for speech in quiet and in babble.
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Listeners use the spatial location or change in spatial location of coherent acoustic cues to aid in auditory object formation. From stimulus-evoked onset responses in normal-hearing listeners using electroencephalography (EEG), we have previously shown measurable tuning to stimuli changing location in quiet, revealing a potential window into the cortical representations of auditory scene analysis. These earlier studies used non-fluctuating, spectrally narrow stimuli, so it was still unknown whether previous observations would translate to speech stimuli, and whether responses would be preserved for stimuli in the presence of background maskers. To examine the effects that selective auditory attention and interferers have on object formation, we measured cortical responses to speech changing location in the free field with and without background babble (+6 dB SNR) during both passive and active conditions. Active conditions required listeners to respond to the onset of the speech stream when it occurred at a new location, explicitly indicating 'yes' or 'no' to whether the stimulus occurred at a block-specific location either 30 degrees to the left or right of midline. In the aggregate, results show similar evoked responses to speech stimuli changing location in quiet compared to babble background. However, the effect of the two background environments diverges somewhat when considering the magnitude and direction of the location change and where the subject was attending. In quiet, attention to the right hemifield appeared to evoke a stronger response than attention to the left hemifield when speech shifted in the rightward direction. No such difference was found in babble conditions. Therefore, consistent with challenges associated with cocktail party listening, directed spatial attention could be compromised in the presence of stimulus noise and likely leads to poorer use of spatial cues in auditory streaming.
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