Why are auditory novels distracting? Contrasting the roles of novelty, violation of expectation and stimulus change
Authors: Parmentier, F.B.R., Elsley, J.V., Andrés, P. and Barceló, F.
Journal: Cognition
Volume: 119
Issue: 3
Pages: 374-380
ISSN: 0010-0277
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2011.02.001
Abstract:Past studies show that novel auditory stimuli, presented in the context of an otherwise repeated sound, capture participants' attention away from a focal task, resulting in measurable behavioral distraction. Novel sounds are traditionally defined as rare and unexpected but past studies have not sought to disentangle these concepts directly. Using a cross-modal oddball task, we contrasted these aspects orthogonally by manipulating the base rate and conditional probabilities of sound events. We report for the first time that behavioral distraction does not result from a sound's novelty per se but from the violation of the cognitive system's expectation based on the learning of conditional probabilities and, to some extent, the occurrence of a perceptual change from one sound to another. © 2011 Elsevier B.V.
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Why are auditory novels distracting? Contrasting the roles of novelty, violation of expectation and stimulus change.
Authors: Parmentier, F.B.R., Elsley, J.V., Andrés, P. and Barceló, F.
Journal: Cognition
Volume: 119
Issue: 3
Pages: 374-380
eISSN: 1873-7838
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2011.02.001
Abstract:Past studies show that novel auditory stimuli, presented in the context of an otherwise repeated sound, capture participants' attention away from a focal task, resulting in measurable behavioral distraction. Novel sounds are traditionally defined as rare and unexpected but past studies have not sought to disentangle these concepts directly. Using a cross-modal oddball task, we contrasted these aspects orthogonally by manipulating the base rate and conditional probabilities of sound events. We report for the first time that behavioral distraction does not result from a sound's novelty per se but from the violation of the cognitive system's expectation based on the learning of conditional probabilities and, to some extent, the occurrence of a perceptual change from one sound to another.
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Why are auditory novels distracting? Contrasting the roles of novelty, violation of expectation and stimulus change
Authors: Parmentier, F.B.R., Elsley, J.V., Andrés, P. and Barceló, F.
Journal: Cognition
Volume: 119
Pages: 374-380
ISSN: 0010-0277
Abstract:Past studies show that novel auditory stimuli, presented in the context of an otherwise repeated sound, capture participants’ attention away from a focal task, resulting in measurable behavioral distraction. Novel sounds are traditionally defined as rare and unexpected but past studies have not sought to disentangle these concepts directly. Using a cross-modal oddball task, we contrasted these aspects orthogonally by manipulating the base rate and conditional probabilities of sound events. We report for the first time that behavioral distraction does not result from a sound’s novelty per se but from the violation of the cognitive system’s expectation based on the learning of conditional probabilities and, to some extent, the occurrence of a perceptual change from one sound to another.
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Why are auditory novels distracting? Contrasting the roles of novelty, violation of expectation and stimulus change.
Authors: Parmentier, F.B.R., Elsley, J.V., Andrés, P. and Barceló, F.
Journal: Cognition
Volume: 119
Issue: 3
Pages: 374-380
eISSN: 1873-7838
ISSN: 0010-0277
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2011.02.001
Abstract:Past studies show that novel auditory stimuli, presented in the context of an otherwise repeated sound, capture participants' attention away from a focal task, resulting in measurable behavioral distraction. Novel sounds are traditionally defined as rare and unexpected but past studies have not sought to disentangle these concepts directly. Using a cross-modal oddball task, we contrasted these aspects orthogonally by manipulating the base rate and conditional probabilities of sound events. We report for the first time that behavioral distraction does not result from a sound's novelty per se but from the violation of the cognitive system's expectation based on the learning of conditional probabilities and, to some extent, the occurrence of a perceptual change from one sound to another.
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