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Are They Calling My Name? Attention Capture Is Reflected in the Neural Tracking of Attended and Ignored Speech

Difficulties in selectively attending to one among several speakers have mainly been associated with the distraction caused by ignored speech. Thus, in the current study, we investigated the neural processing of ignored speech in a two-competing-speaker paradigm. For this, we recorded the participan...

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Autores principales: Holtze, Björn, Jaeger, Manuela, Debener, Stefan, Adiloğlu, Kamil, Mirkovic, Bojana
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8019946/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33828451
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2021.643705
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author Holtze, Björn
Jaeger, Manuela
Debener, Stefan
Adiloğlu, Kamil
Mirkovic, Bojana
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Jaeger, Manuela
Debener, Stefan
Adiloğlu, Kamil
Mirkovic, Bojana
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description Difficulties in selectively attending to one among several speakers have mainly been associated with the distraction caused by ignored speech. Thus, in the current study, we investigated the neural processing of ignored speech in a two-competing-speaker paradigm. For this, we recorded the participant’s brain activity using electroencephalography (EEG) to track the neural representation of the attended and ignored speech envelope. To provoke distraction, we occasionally embedded the participant’s first name in the ignored speech stream. Retrospective reports as well as the presence of a P3 component in response to the name indicate that participants noticed the occurrence of their name. As predicted, the neural representation of the ignored speech envelope increased after the name was presented therein, suggesting that the name had attracted the participant’s attention. Interestingly, in contrast to our hypothesis, the neural tracking of the attended speech envelope also increased after the name occurrence. On this account, we conclude that the name might not have primarily distracted the participants, at most for a brief duration, but that it alerted them to focus to their actual task. These observations remained robust even when the sound intensity of the ignored speech stream, and thus the sound intensity of the name, was attenuated.
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spelling pubmed-80199462021-04-06 Are They Calling My Name? Attention Capture Is Reflected in the Neural Tracking of Attended and Ignored Speech Holtze, Björn Jaeger, Manuela Debener, Stefan Adiloğlu, Kamil Mirkovic, Bojana Front Neurosci Neuroscience Difficulties in selectively attending to one among several speakers have mainly been associated with the distraction caused by ignored speech. Thus, in the current study, we investigated the neural processing of ignored speech in a two-competing-speaker paradigm. For this, we recorded the participant’s brain activity using electroencephalography (EEG) to track the neural representation of the attended and ignored speech envelope. To provoke distraction, we occasionally embedded the participant’s first name in the ignored speech stream. Retrospective reports as well as the presence of a P3 component in response to the name indicate that participants noticed the occurrence of their name. As predicted, the neural representation of the ignored speech envelope increased after the name was presented therein, suggesting that the name had attracted the participant’s attention. Interestingly, in contrast to our hypothesis, the neural tracking of the attended speech envelope also increased after the name occurrence. On this account, we conclude that the name might not have primarily distracted the participants, at most for a brief duration, but that it alerted them to focus to their actual task. These observations remained robust even when the sound intensity of the ignored speech stream, and thus the sound intensity of the name, was attenuated. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-03-22 /pmc/articles/PMC8019946/ /pubmed/33828451 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2021.643705 Text en Copyright © 2021 Holtze, Jaeger, Debener, Adiloğlu and Mirkovic. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Holtze, Björn
Jaeger, Manuela
Debener, Stefan
Adiloğlu, Kamil
Mirkovic, Bojana
Are They Calling My Name? Attention Capture Is Reflected in the Neural Tracking of Attended and Ignored Speech
title Are They Calling My Name? Attention Capture Is Reflected in the Neural Tracking of Attended and Ignored Speech
title_full Are They Calling My Name? Attention Capture Is Reflected in the Neural Tracking of Attended and Ignored Speech
title_fullStr Are They Calling My Name? Attention Capture Is Reflected in the Neural Tracking of Attended and Ignored Speech
title_full_unstemmed Are They Calling My Name? Attention Capture Is Reflected in the Neural Tracking of Attended and Ignored Speech
title_short Are They Calling My Name? Attention Capture Is Reflected in the Neural Tracking of Attended and Ignored Speech
title_sort are they calling my name? attention capture is reflected in the neural tracking of attended and ignored speech
topic Neuroscience
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8019946/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33828451
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2021.643705
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