REVEALING THE STIMULUS-DRIVEN COMPONENT OF ATTENTION THROUGH MODULATIONS OF AUDITORY SALIENCE BY TIMBRE ATTRIBUTES

Revealing the stimulus-driven component of attention through modulations of auditory salience by timbre attributes

Abstract Attention allows the listener to select relevant information from their environment, and disregard what is irrelevant.However, irrelevant stimuli sometimes manage to capture it and stand out from a scene because of bottom-up processes driven by salient stimuli.This attentional capture effect was observed using an implicit approach based on

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Antibody responses in blood and saliva post COVID-19 bivalent booster do not reveal an Omicron BA.4/BA.5- specific response

IntroductionCurrent SARS-CoV-2 strains continue to mutate and attempt to evade the antibody response elicited by previous exposures and vaccinations.In September of 2022, the first updated SARS-CoV-2 vaccines, designed to create immune responses specific for the variants circulating in 2022, were approved.These new vaccines, known commonly as the b

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