Inattentional deafness in music

Koreimann, Sabrina; Gula, Bartosz; Vitouch, Oliver

doi:10.1007/s00426-014-0552-x

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“…Echoing elegantly with the famous inattentional blindness paradigm of Simons and Levins (1997), Dalton and Fraenkel (2012) have shown that participants might experience inattentional deafness by failing to notice the sentence "I am a Gorilla" while attending to an auditory conversation. The occurrence of this phenomenon has also been demonstrated in music listening, whereby some listeners were unable to report a salient electric guitar solo embedded in the XIX th century "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" lyrics poem (Koreimann et al, 2014). Cross-modality interactions are also known to induce inattentional deafness and drive some relevant research on this topic.…”

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Inattentional deafness to auditory alarms: Inter-individual differences, electrophysiological signature and single trial classification

Dehais

Roy

Scannella

2019

Behavioural Brain Research

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Inattentional deafness can have deleterious consequences in complex real-life situations (e.g. healthcare, aviation) leading to miss critical auditory signals. Such failure of auditory attention is thought to rely on top-down biasing mechanisms at the central executive level. A complementary approach to account for this phenomenon is to consider the existence of visual dominance over hearing that could be implemented via direct visual-to-auditory pathways. To investigate this phenomenon, thirteen aircraft pilots, equipped with a 32-channel EEG system, faced a low and high workload scenarii along with an auditory oddball task in a motion flight simulator. Prior to the flying task, the pilots were screened to assess their working memory span and visual dominance susceptibility. The behavioral results disclosed that the volunteers missed 57.7% of the auditory alarms in the difficult condition. Among all evaluated capabilities, only the visual dominance index was predictive of the miss rate in the difficult scenario. These findings provide behavioral evidences that other early cross-modal competitive process than top down modulation process could account for inattentional deafness. The electrophysiological analyses showed that the miss over the hit alarms led to a significant amplitude reduction of early perceptual (N100) and late attentional (P3a and P3b) event-related potentials components. Eventually, we implemented an EEG-based processing pipeline to perform single-trial classification of inattentional deafness. The results indicate that this processing chain could be used in an ecological setting as it led to 72.2% mean accuracy to discriminate missed from hit auditory alarms.

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Inattentional deafness to auditory alarms: Inter-individual differences, electrophysiological signature and single trial classification

Dehais

Roy

Scannella

2019

Behavioural Brain Research

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“…Unfortunately, these operational situations are rich of accidents whereby humans failed to notice cues in the visual scene or onboard warning system (Gibb & Gray, ; Murphy & Greene, ). One has to consider that this “inattentional” impairment is not limited to vision and may affect other modalities (Murphy & Dalton, ) such as auditory processing (Koreimann, Gula, & Vitouch, ).…”

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Disruption in neural phase synchrony is related to identification of inattentional deafness in real‐world setting

Callan

Gateau

Durantin

et al. 2018

Human Brain Mapping

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Individuals often have reduced ability to hear alarms in real world situations (e.g., anesthesia monitoring, flying airplanes) when attention is focused on another task, sometimes with devastating consequences. This phenomenon is called inattentional deafness and usually occurs under critical high workload conditions. It is difficult to simulate the critical nature of these tasks in the laboratory. In this study, dry electroencephalography is used to investigate inattentional deafness in real flight while piloting an airplane. The pilots participating in the experiment responded to audio alarms while experiencing critical high workload situations. It was found that missed relative to detected alarms were marked by reduced stimulus evoked phase synchrony in theta and alpha frequencies (6-14 Hz) from 120 to 230 ms poststimulus onset. Correlation of alarm detection performance with intertrial coherence measures of neural phase synchrony showed different frequency and time ranges for detected and missed alarms. These results are consistent with selective attentional processes actively disrupting oscillatory coherence in sensory networks not involved with the primary task (piloting in this case) under critical high load conditions. This hypothesis is corroborated by analyses of flight parameters showing greater maneuvering associated with difficult phases of flight occurring during missed alarms. Our results suggest modulation of neural oscillation is a general mechanism of attention utilizing enhancement of phase synchrony to sharpen alarm perception during successful divided attention, and disruption of phase synchrony in brain networks when attentional demands of the primary task are great, such as in the case of inattentional deafness.

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“…The high cognitive and perceptual loads typical of ATC operations may consume most of attentional resources, thus reducing the remaining attentional capacity for processing unexpected stimuli such as auditory alarms. This failure to perceive auditory stimuli has been called inattentional deafness (Macdonald and Lavie, 2011 ; Koreimann et al, 2014 ). Given the potential impact of inattentional deafness in safety-critical occupations, it is important to understand the factors that promote this phenomenon and to be able to detect its occurrence.…”

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The Role of Cognitive and Perceptual Loads in Inattentional Deafness

Causse

Imbert

Giraudet

et al. 2016

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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The current study examines the role of cognitive and perceptual loads in inattentional deafness (the failure to perceive an auditory stimulus) and the possibility to predict this phenomenon with ocular measurements. Twenty participants performed Air Traffic Control (ATC) scenarios—in the Laby ATC-like microworld—guiding one (low cognitive load) or two (high cognitive load) aircraft while responding to visual notifications related to 7 (low perceptual load) or 21 (high perceptual load) peripheral aircraft. At the same time, participants were played standard tones which they had to ignore (probability = 0.80), or deviant tones (probability = 0.20) which they had to report. Behavioral results showed that 28.76% of alarms were not reported in the low cognitive load condition and up to 46.21% in the high cognitive load condition. On the contrary, perceptual load had no impact on the inattentional deafness rate. Finally, the mean pupil diameter of the fixations that preceded the target tones was significantly lower in the trials in which the participants did not report the tones, likely showing a momentary lapse of sustained attention, which in turn was associated to the occurrence of inattentional deafness.

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Inattentional deafness in music

Cited by 32 publications

References 34 publications

Inattentional deafness to auditory alarms: Inter-individual differences, electrophysiological signature and single trial classification

Inattentional deafness to auditory alarms: Inter-individual differences, electrophysiological signature and single trial classification

Disruption in neural phase synchrony is related to identification of inattentional deafness in real‐world setting

The Role of Cognitive and Perceptual Loads in Inattentional Deafness

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