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Examining The Role Of Diverted Attention On Musical Motion Aftereffects, Hannah D. Cormier
Examining The Role Of Diverted Attention On Musical Motion Aftereffects, Hannah D. Cormier
Undergraduate Honours Theses
Previous studies have observed visual motion aftereffects (MAE) following prolonged exposure to both auditory and visual stimuli. As the importance of attention for MAE perception has been debated, the present study manipulated the level of attention directed to an auditory stimulus depicting motion and assessed how attention influenced MAE strength. It was hypothesized that MAE strength would be dependent on attention to the motion stimuli. 100 participants were recruited and randomly divided into either a Diverted-Attention Condition or Control Condition. Each participant completed preliminary assessments to ensure adequate auditory calibration and familiarity with the random dot kinematogram (RDK) visual motion …
Attention To Melodic Versus Phonetic Cues In 8-Month-Old Infants, Alexandra M. Ryken
Attention To Melodic Versus Phonetic Cues In 8-Month-Old Infants, Alexandra M. Ryken
Undergraduate Honours Theses
Infant listeners have very sophisticated auditory processing skills. In the music domain, infants as young as 6-months of age can recognize familiar and novel melodies (e.g., Trainor, Wu, & Tsang, 2004), and in the speech domain 8-month-old infants can use the statistical frequency of syllables to recognize familiar and novel nonsense words (e.g., Saffran, Aslin, & Newport, 1996). Though infants can process music and speech information when presented separately, there has been little research to date on whether infants can process information from both streams simultaneously. Auditory streams such as lullabies often contain both a melody and lyrics, but can …