Please use this persistent identifier to cite or link to this item: doi:10.24405/4324
Title: Pre-Attentive Processing of Room Acoustic
Authors: Frey, Johannes Daniel
Language: eng
Keywords: Event-Related Potentials;Mismatch Negativity;Pre-Attentive Auditory Processing;Auditory Space Perception;Virtual Acoustic;ERP;MMN
Subject (DDC): 150 Psychologie
Issue Date: 2017
Publisher: Universitätsbibliothek der HSU / UniBwH
Document Type: Thesis
Abstract: 
Previous research has shown that the human auditory system continuously monitors its acoustic environment, detecting a variety of irregularities (e.g., deviance from prior stimulation regularity in pitch, loudness, duration, and (perceived) sound source location). Detection of irregularities can be inferred from a component of the event-related brain potential (ERP), referred to as the mismatch negativity (MMN), even in conditions in which participants are instructed to ignore the auditory stimulation. This dissertation extends previous findings by demonstrating that auditory irregularities brought about by a change in room acoustics elicit a MMN in a passive oddball protocol (acoustic stimuli with differing room acoustics, that were otherwise identical, were employed as standard and deviant stimuli), in which participants watched a fiction movie (silent with subtitles). While the majority of participants reported no awareness for any changes in the auditory stimulation. Together, these findings suggest automatic monitoring of room acoustics.
Organization Units (connected with the publication): Allgemeine und Biologische Psychologie 
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24405/4324
Advisor: Jacobsen, Thomas 
Referee: Köhler, Thomas
Grantor: HSU Hamburg
Type of thesis: PhD Thesis
Exam date: 2017-04-25
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