What determines auditory distraction? On the roles of local auditory changes and expectation violations.

Both the acoustic variability of a distractor sequence and the degree to which it violates expectations are important determinants of auditory distraction. In four experiments we examined the relative contribution of local auditory changes on the one hand and expectation violations on the other hand...

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Main Authors: Jan P Röer, Raoul Bell, Axel Buchner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3882218?pdf=render