Frequency tagging has been often used to study intramodal attention but not intermodal attention. We used EEG and simultaneous frequency tagging of auditory and visual sources to study intermodal focused and divided attention in detection and discrimination performance. Divided-attention costs were smaller, but significant, in detection than in discrimination. The auditory steady-state response...

In noisy environments, we use auditory selective attention to actively ignore distracting sounds and select relevant information, as during a cocktail party to follow one particular conversation. The present electrophysiological study aims at deciphering the spatiotemporal organization of the effect of selective attention on the representation of concurrent sounds in the human auditory cortex. ...

This study investigated the effects of computer-based auditory training software (Otto’s World of Sound) on auditory discrimination, speech perception and auditory attention skills in New Zealand children who have a hearing impairment. Four school-age participants with moderate to profound hearing loss participated in the study. A pre versus post test case study series design was employed to ob...

The present study focuses on the question of whether inter- and intramodal forms of attention are reflected in activation of the same or different brain areas. ERPs were recorded while subjects were presented a random sequence of visual and auditory stimuli. They were instructed to attend to nonspatial attributes of either auditory or visual stimuli and to detect occasional target stimuli withi...