Auditory selective attention

Key Researchers: Kamal San, BU; Matthew Ning, BU; Alexander von Lühmann, BU; David Boas, BU; Meryem Ayşe Yücel, BU

Summary: Previous research supports the notion that selective attention can modulate the brain response to an auditory stimulus by amplifying the target source while suppressing competing sources (as in cocktail party problem). Moreover, individuals show differences in the strength of this attentional modulation. We aim to investigate whether the differences in how strongly attention modulates cortical responses reflect differences in normal-hearing listeners’ selective auditory attention ability.