Does auditory streaming require attention? Evidence from attentional selectivity in short-term memory.

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R. P. Carlyon, R. Cusack, J. M. Foxton, and I. H. Robertson (2001) have argued that attention is crucial for auditory streaming. The authors review R. P. Carlyon et al.'s (2001) arguments and suggest that a pertinent literature, the irrelevant sound paradigm--demonstrating preattentive auditory streaming--has been overlooked. In illustration of this alternative approach, the authors include a novel single experiment demonstrating the impact of preattentive auditory streaming on short-term serial memory. It is concluded that R. P. Carlyon et al.'s (2001) results do not definitively demonstrate that auditory streaming processes are dependent on attention; indeed, they are compatible with alternative accounts of the relationship between perceptual organization and attention.

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Author/s: Macken, William J (WJ); Tremblay, Sébastien (S); Houghton, Robert J (RJ); Nicholls, Alastair P (AP); Jones, Dylan M (DM);

Affiliation: School of Psychology, Cardiff University, United Kingdom. macken@cardiff.ac.uk

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Clinical Trial; Comment; Journal Article; Randomized Controlled Trial; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Journal: Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance (J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2003-Feb; vol 29 (issue 1) : pp 43-51

Dates: Created 2003/04/02; Completed 2003/06/11; Revised 2006/11/15;

PMID: 12669746, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)

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Comments and Corrections

CommentOn: J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform. 2001 Feb;27(1):115-27. (PMID: 11248927)

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