Distraction by violation of sensory predictions: Functional distinction between deviant sounds and unexpected silences.

It has been established that participants performing a continuous categorization task respond significantly slower following the presentation of unexpected, task-irrelevant, auditory stimuli, compared to a repetitive (standard) sound. Evidence indicates that such distraction emerges because of the v...

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Main Authors: Fabrice B R Parmentier, Alicia Leiva, Pilar Andrés, Murray T Maybery
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2022-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0274188