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Varghese, Lenny Alex.

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Psychophysical and electrophysiological investigations into the mechanisms supporting everyday communication.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Psychophysical and electrophysiological investigations into the mechanisms supporting everyday communication./
Author:	Varghese, Lenny Alex.
Description:	105 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-02(E), Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International75-02B(E).
Subject:	Biology, Neuroscience. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3575357
ISBN:	9781303531927

Psychophysical and electrophysiological investigations into the mechanisms supporting everyday communication.
Varghese, Lenny Alex.

Psychophysical and electrophysiological investigations into the mechanisms supporting everyday communication. - 105 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-02(E), Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University, 2013.

Humans solve the so-called "cocktail party problem" with relative ease, and are generally able to selectively direct their attention to process and recall acoustic information from one sound source in the presence of other irrelevant stimuli that are competing for cognitive resources. This ability depends on a variety of factors, including volitional control of selective attention, the ability to store information in memory for recall at a later time, and the ability to integrate information across multiple sensory modalities. Here, psychophysical and electroencephalography (EEG) experiments were conducted to study these three factors. The effects of selective attention on cortical and subcortical structures were examined using EEG recorded during a dichotic listening task. Cortical potentials showed robust effects of attention (demonstrated by the ability to classify responses to attended and ignored speech based on short segments of EEG responses); however, potentials originating in the brainstem did not, even though stimuli were engineered to maximize the separability of the neural representation of the competing sources in the auditory periphery and thus the possibility of seeing attention-specific modulation of subcortical responses. In another study, the relationship between object formation and memory processing was explored in a psychophysical experiment examining how sequences of nonverbal auditory stimuli are stored and recalled from short-term memory. The results of this study support the notion that auditory short-term memory, like visual short-term memory, can be explained in terms of object formation. In particular, short-term memory performance is affected by stream formation and the perceptual costs involved in switching attention between multiple streams. Finally, effects of audiovisual integration were studied in a psychophysical experiment using complex speech-like stimuli (zebra finch songs). Results show visual cues improve performance differently depending on whether target identification is limited by energetic masking or whether it is limited by object formation difficulties and uncertainty about when a target occurs. Together, these studies support the idea that everyday communication depends on an interplay of many mechanisms including attention, memory, and multisensory integration, each of which is influenced by perceptual organization.

ISBN: 9781303531927Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017680
Biology, Neuroscience.

Psychophysical and electrophysiological investigations into the mechanisms supporting everyday communication.
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