Research participants with FAS performed worse on measures of visual attention than measures
of auditory attention.
Not exact matches
This improvement in what is called
auditory attention is essentially a measure
of concentration, and could, for example, enable a person to better extract relevant information from a lecture, Bak said.
While you were concentrating on the screen your
auditory mechanisms would sort
of make a recording for you
of a series
of sounds and then you would switch your
attention to those sounds and scoop them up before returning your
attention to the screen.
The
auditory function
of Bluebee Pals through music, stories, educational apps, and more capture and maintain a child's
attention.
Introducing babies to different sounds, noises and styles
of music can develop their
auditory skills and improve their
attention spans.
«This work combines the state -
of - the - art from two disciplines: speech engineering and
auditory attention decoding,» says Mesgarani, who is also a member
of the Data Science Institute and the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute.
They identified the regions
of the
auditory cortex that contribute to AAD and found that the system decoded the
attention of the listener and amplified the voice he or she wanted to listen to, using only the mixed audio.
In the course
of examining single unit responses from the cortex
of unrestrained and unanesthetized cats, we have come upon a population
of cells that appears to be sensitive to
auditory stimuli only if the cat «pays
attention» to the sound source.
It may be that distractions deprive the errant signals from the
auditory cortex
of the
attention they need to cause real distress.
Auditory attention in autism spectrum disorder: an exploration
of volumetric magnetic resonance imaging findings Lalani SJ, Duffield TC, Trontel HG, Bigler ED, Abildskov TJ, Froehlich A, Prigge MBD, Travers BG, Anderson JS, Zielinski BA, Alexander A, Lange N, Lainhart JE.
The male patient, diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder, with a prior psychiatric history
of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and major depression, experienced «dramatic» reductions in
auditory hallucinations and delusions, as well as better mood and energy on the ketogenic diet.
Performance was evaluated with tests
of auditory vigilance, in which the participants had to respond to a certain sound, or divided
attention tasks, in which the participants had to perform two tasks simultaneously (Roehrs et al. 2000a).
In film criticism,
auditory perception is rarely prioritized in the way that visual perception is, and yet when we attend a film screening, our
attention is not necessarily dominated in a directional sense by the pull
of the visuals.
In the ASD - ENA, some
of the most comorbid conditions identified included anxiety, depression,
attention difficulties, learning and communication issues, and
auditory processing needs.
The program trains subjects by using seven computer - based training exercises that emphasize different aspects
of oral language, including
auditory attention, discrimination, and memory, as well as phonological processing and listening comprehension.
These include a test
of vision; a measure
of cognition, language, motor skills, behavior,
attention and emotional reactivity; a test
of cortical
auditory processing and a measure
of sleep patterns and daytime physical activity.