BACKGROUND Evidence suggests that auditory hallucinations may result from abnormally enhanced auditory sensitivity. AIMS To investigate whether there is an auditory processing bias in healthy individuals who are prone to experiencing auditory hallucinations. METHOD Two hundred healthy volunteers performed a temporal order judgement task in which they determined whether an auditory or a visu...

Analogous auditory and visual central-incidental learning tasks were administered to 24 students from each of the second, fourth, and sixth grades. The visual tasks served as another modification of Magens central-incidental learning paradigm, with the interpretation that focal attention processes continue to develop until the age of 12 or 13 years. The auditory tasks were administat;Led to the...

A model of auditory attention

The challenge of understanding how the brain processes natural signals is compounded by the fact that such signals are often tied closely to specific natural behaviors and natural environments. This added complexity is especially true for auditory communication signals that can carry information at multiple hierarchical levels, and often occur in the context of other competing communication sig...

BACKGROUND The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the psychometric properties (validity and reliability) of the Persian version of the Sustained Auditory Attention Capacity Test in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. METHODS The Persian version of the Sustained Auditory Attention Capacity Test was constructed to assess sustained auditory attention using the metho...

Background: Chess is a game that involves many aspects of high level cognition such as memory, attention, focus and problem solving. Long term practice of chess can improve cognition performances and behavioral skills. Auditory memory, as a kind of memory, can be influenced by strengthening processes following long term chess playing like other behavioral skills because of common processing pat...