Talk:Selective auditory attention

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment
This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 27 May 2020 and 6 July 2020. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Frank0229. Peer reviewers: Jamy Jung.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 03:25, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

New History Section
Hi everyone, I have updated the history section. Frank0229 (talk) 23:54, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Human Cognition SP23
— Assignment last updated by Serenity D-B (talk) 20:03, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

Disorder content
The material doesn’t go into any specificity regarding its impact on people with sensory processing disorder, which is why I visited this page, hoping to learn more. My particular interest stems from the cocktail party problem, as well as the deterioration of cognitive ability with age. I also think the importance of pitch and tone are under emphasized. For example, people with an extremely low or bassy voice sound like fingernails on a chalkboard to me. For some reason, vocalists do not have this effect on me, only conversational speech, and the Inception sound effects did not trouble me. I cannot listen to any radio DJ that has a very low announcer voice, for example. I once had a neighbor with an unusually low, deep, and booming voice who lived about fifty feet away from my house. If he was outside talking in his backyard, I had to close all the windows and doors, otherwise it would give me a serious headache. Viriditas (talk) 00:02, 6 September 2023 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: PSYC 115 General Psychology
— Assignment last updated by TIME137TSS (talk) 01:15, 8 October 2023 (UTC)

"Functional Brain Imaging Studies of Auditory Attention"
We created a new section on neuroimaging tools such as PET (Positron Emission Tomography) and fMRI (Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging) have been very successful in neural operations with high spatial resolution. Specifically, fMRI has been used to find evidence for attention effects in the auditory cortex in multiple studies. Another study based on "classical" dichotic selective listening paradigms has been proven to be successful as well. The findings showed that the effects were larger in the cortex contralateral to the direction of attention and were interpreted as "selective tuning of the left or right auditory cortices according to the direction of attention"

I used reliable sources for this reaserch

--Eallen21 (talk) 21:19, 20 November 2023 (UTC)

"Development in Youth"
This section would be a newly created one on the basis of showing the development in their selective auditory attention abilities. One key point is that studying SAA in adults and infants is quite easier than in infants due to their limited communication skills. Nevertheless, it's noted that infants have more auditory attention towards sounds that are familiar such as a mother's voice or one's native language compared to other unfamiliar voices. Another important detail is that older children have an increased ability to select for specific auditory stimuli compared to younger children. This suggests that SAA is an age dependent ability.

--Olefinder (talk) 19:59, 24 November 2023 (UTC)

Changes to "Intro" Section
Changes in sentence wording and structure were needed for better clarity as well as removing unimportant sections. This includes changing "Selective auditory attention or selective hearing is a type of selective attention and involves the auditory system." to "Selective auditory attention, or selective hearing, is a process of the auditory system where an individual selects or focuses on certain stimuli for auditory information processing while other stimuli are disregarded." as well as changing "Selective hearing is characterized as the action in which people focus their attention intentionally on a specific source of a sound or spoken words." to "This selection is very important as the processing and memory capabilities for humans has a limited capacity." In addition, the removal of "The dividing line between preference and utility is not clear cut. Selective auditory attention differs from selective perception, in that the filtering in the latter case is mediated by cognitive dissonance." at the end of the intro is necessary as it goes off topic as well as providing unnecessary filler.

--Olefinder (talk) 20:12, 24 November 2023 (UTC)

"Background" to "Bottleneck Effect"
The "Background" section in this article seems misleading as it presents a different topic that is very similar to SAA. Thus, by changing the section to "Bottleneck Effect", not only does it provide new evidence on cognitive processes that work with SAA, but also set up a new topic on its own. Small edits are changed in this section to make wording and flow sound better.

--Olefinder (talk) 20:22, 24 November 2023 (UTC)

Removal of the "Recent Research" Section
At the beginning of the Wiki article, it's noted that this page contains original research and should be removed. And after analyzing the whole page, the "Recent Research" section is where this warning comes from. While the information is great at understanding certain SAA processes, it doesn't follow the wiki guidelines of containing only secondary sources and as such should be removed.

--Olefinder (talk) 20:35, 24 November 2023 (UTC)

Overwhelm
"A brain simply cannot collect all sensory information that is occurring in an environment so only the most relevant and important information is thoroughly processed by the brain."

First off, the cited scientific paper doesn't seem to claim this.

Second, this statement could do with a bit more nuance. When denied this filtering, the brain can certainly attempt to collect all sensory information, but it can get overwhelming fast. This is why, for example, autistic people get so easily overwhelmed with sensory information to the point we need to stim to attempt to focus on that instead (as much as focusing/filtering is possible), or to artificially diminish the information (by wearing ear defenders, for instance), otherwise we'll end up melting down, shutting down, getting a headache or migraine, or dissociating, and needing to go somewhere dark and quiet to lie down for a while.

So collecting all sensory information is possible, but you need to diminish the amount you expose yourself to.

ZoeB (talk) 12:24, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Research Methods in Clinical Psychology
— Assignment last updated by Maddieshoemaker23 (talk) 14:34, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

Edited "Development in Youth" section
Hi everyone, I have updated the "Development in Youth" section. This included simplifying some wording in addition to adding certain details. These details included factors that contribute to lessened ability to allocate attention to one message among interfering messages relating to age. Mwaryas (talk) 02:45, 4 May 2024 (UTC)