Friday 4 February 2011

Theories of focused auditory attention

  • Filter theory: this is when distracting information is filtered out at an early stage and only attended information is furtherly processed
  • Attenuation theory: unattended information is not filtered out, it is just attenuated and the strength turned down
  • Late selection theory: information is not filtered, instead it is processed at a late stage via the evaluation of current importance

No comments:

Post a Comment