Keeping task-relevant sensory events in the focus of attention while ignoring irrelevant ones
is crucial for optimizing task behavior. This attention-distraction balance might change with …

Unilateral pulsatile tinnitus (PT) was proved to be a kind of disease with brain functional
abnormalities within and beyond the auditory network (AN). However, changes in patterns of …

Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is considered an intermediate transitional stage for the
development of dementia, especially Alzheimer's disease. The identification of …

Everyday conversations take place in environments with some level of background noise.
An aging-related decrease in the ability to understand speech in the presence of noise …

Sound-offset responses are distinct to sound onsets in their underlying neural mechanisms,
temporal processing pathways and roles in auditory perception following recent …

The concept of attention as a crucial factor in human performance extends back to the
beginning of the experimental psychology, more than a century back. According to …