Incidental attention may improve detection of statistical change in sound textures

Evidence

Some subjects reported improved detection of change, when not attending to the stimulus, suggesting that a dual-task paradigm would be interesting where attention can be assessed and controlled. — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 3340

Categorization

• QUESTION: Does inattentional processing genuinely outperform focused attention for statistical-change detection? A dual-task paradigm could answer this.