@article{THESIS,
      recid = {4241},
      author = {Swann, Jack},
      title = {Cognitive Interactions within Sensory Information in  Perception},
      publisher = {University of Chicago},
      school = {M.A.},
      address = {2022-07-29},
      number = {THESIS},
      abstract = {The dynamics present during early information processing  at the sensory level of the auditory system have long been  studied, and there are two broad views of this processing.  The purely bottom-up view is that sensory information is  passed up to higher-level cognitive systems in an automatic  process of successive recoding.  By contrast, the top-down  view is that cognitive processing can interact with sensory  processes to modify representations even at the earliest  levels of sensation. One way of understanding these  interactions is to examine individual differences that are  not simply reflective of lower-level sensory systems,  especially those under cognitive control such as attention.   While findings exist that document a relationship between  individual differences in auditory attention and visual  working memory (WM; Giuliano et al., 2014), few studies  have investigated the relationship between individual  differences in auditory attention/WM and early speech  processing. The current study was designed to assess the  relationship between individual differences in attention/WM  and signal detection of speech sounds In addition, the  higher-level cognitive attribute of "dissociation"--a  feeling of disconnection from the immediate situation--was  also measured to approach higher-level differences in  attention.  We examined how differences in dissociative  states relate to attention and signal detection.  Participants were presented with a task that served as a  measure of auditory working memory (WM) and selective  attention, a two-step N-Back (2-Back) task, and a task that  served as a measure of participants’ ability to detect  speech signals embedded in noise. Survey measures for  cognitive dissociation were also collected for each  participant. Signal detection and WM task performance were  correlated with dissociation survey scores. Additionally,  WM and selective attention are correlated with speech  signal detection, although primarily in terms of false  alarm errors.},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/4241},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.4241},
}