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- Title
The rhythm of attention: Perceptual modulation via rhythmic entrainment is lowpass and attention mediated.
- Authors
Farahbod, Haleh; Saberi, Kourosh; Hickok, Gregory
- Abstract
Modulation patterns are known to carry critical predictive cues to signal detection in complex acoustic environments. The current study investigated the persistence of masker modulation effects on postmodulation detection of probe signals. Hickok, Farahbod, and Saberi (Psychological Science, 26, 1006–1013, 2015) demonstrated that thresholds for a tone pulse in stationary noise follow a predictable periodic pattern when preceded by a 3-Hz amplitude modulated masker. They found entrainment of detection patterns to the modulation envelope lasting for approximately two cycles after termination of modulation. The current study extends these results to a wide range of modulation rates by mapping the temporal modulation transfer function for persistent modulatory effects. We found significant entrainment to modulation rates of 2 and 3 Hz, a weaker effect at 5 Hz, and no entrainment at higher rates (8 to 32 Hz). The effect seems critically dependent on attentional mechanisms, requiring temporal and level uncertainty of the probe signal. Our findings suggest that the persistence of modulatory effects on signal detection is lowpass in nature and attention based.
- Subjects
ACOUSTIC signal detection; TRANSFER functions; RHYTHM; SIGNAL detection; ATTENTION
- Publication
Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 2020, Vol 82, Issue 7, p3558
- ISSN
1943-3921
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3758/s13414-020-02095-y