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Behavioral Determination of Stimulus Pair Discrimination of Auditory Acoustic and Electrical Stimuli Using a Classical Conditioning and Heart-rate Approach

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Previously reward-associated sounds interfere with goal-directed auditory processing.

Andy J Kim¹, David S Lee¹, Brian A Anderson¹

¹Texas A&M Institute for Neuroscience, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA.

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (2006)

|January 13, 2021

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Previously reward-associated sounds can involuntarily capture attention, even in the auditory domain. This study shows learned reward cues bias auditory attention, interfering with goal-directed processing.

Keywords:

Attentional capture associative learning auditory attention reward

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Neuroscience
Auditory Perception

Background:

Reward-associated stimuli capture visual attention.
Task-irrelevant auditory reward cues can interfere with visual processing.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate if task-irrelevant auditory reward cues interfere with auditory processing.
To determine if attention is biased towards learned auditory reward cues.

Main Methods:

Modified dichotic listening task with a training and test phase.
Participants learned associations between spoken letters and monetary rewards.
Response times measured interference from previously reward-associated auditory stimuli.

Main Results:

Attention was biased towards auditory stimuli associated with high monetary value.
This bias was observed in both training and test phases.
Interference with goal-directed auditory processing was demonstrated.

Conclusions:

Learned reward cues can bias auditory attention.
This attentional bias can interfere with processing task-relevant auditory information.
Findings extend reward-driven attentional capture to the auditory domain.