title: Neurophysiological mechanisms of auditory selective attention in humans.
abstract: This chapter reviews the main data on the physiological substrates of auditory selective attention and their contribution to theoretical models of cognitive psychology. While event-related potentials, magnetoencephalography, and more recently neuroimaging techniques have provided fundamental information on the neural correlates of attention in the central cortical system, measurements of the frequency-following responses in the brainstem and evoked otoacoustic emissions at the cochlea strongly suggest attentional phenomena at the auditory periphery. We propose an adaptive filtering mechanism for selective auditory attention that can be flexibly and dynamically tuned depending on the attentional demand.
authors.affiliation: INSERM U280, Mental and Brain Process Laboratory, 151 Cours Albert Thomas, 69003 Lyon, France. giard@lyon151.inserm.fr
authors.forename: M H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Giard
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fort
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Mouchetant-Rostaing
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Pernier
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D001307:Auditory Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology; D006309:Hearing; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D009424:Nervous System Physiological Phenomena