TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2011//
TI  - Dimension-specific attention directs learning and listening on auditory training tasks
JO  - Attention, perception and psychophysics
A1  - Amitay, Sygal
A1  - Taylor, Jenny L.
A1  - Moore, David R.
A1  - Halliday, Lorna F.
SP  - 1329
EP  - 1335
VL  - 73
IS  - 5
N2  - The relative contributions of bottom-up versus top-down sensory inputs to auditory learning are not well established. In our experiment, listeners were instructed to perform either a frequency discrimination (FD) task ("FD-train group") or an intensity discrimination (ID) task ("ID-train group") during training on a set of physically identical tones that were impossible to discriminate consistently above chance, allowing us to vary top-down attention whilst keeping bottom-up inputs fixed. A third, control group did not receive any training. Only the FD-train group improved on a FD probe following training, whereas all groups improved on ID following training. However, only the ID-train group also showed changes in performance accuracy as a function of interval with training on the ID task. These findings suggest that top-down, dimension-specific attention can direct auditory learning, even when this learning is not reflected in conventional performance measures of threshold change.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1943-3921
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13414-011-0148-0
ID  - ref1
ER  -