A Computational Model of Auditory Selective Attention  

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Wrigley, S. N. ; Brown, G. J.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks vol. 15 no. 5 (Sep. 2004), page 1151-1163.
Topik: computational; computational model; auditory selective; attention

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: II36.11 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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The human auditory system is able to separate acoustic mixtures in order to create a perceptual description of each sound source. It has been proposed that this is achieved by an auditory scene analysis (ASA) in which a mixture of sounds is parsed to give a number of perceptual streams, each of which describes a single sound source. It is widely assumed that ASA is a precursor of attentional mechanisms, which select a stream for attentional focus. However, recent studies suggest that attention plays a key role in the formation of auditory streams. Motivated by these findings, this paper presents a conceptual framework for auditory selective attention in which the formation of groups and streams is heavily influenced by conscious and subconscious attention. This framework is implemented as a computational model comprising a network of neural oscillators, which perform stream segregation on the basis of oscillatory correlation. Within the network, attentional interest is modeled as a Gaussian distribution in frequency. This determines the connection weights between oscillators and the attentional process, which is modeled as an attentional leaky integrator (ALI). Acoustic features are held to be the subject of attention if their oscillatory activity coincides temporally with a peak in the ALI activity. The output of the model is an "attentional stream," which encodes the frequency bands in the attentional focus at each epoch. The model successfully simulates a range of psychophysical phenomena.

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