TY  - CONF
A1  - Loh, Karin
A1  - Fintor, Edina
A1  - Nolden, Sophie
A1  - Fels, Janina
T1  - Comparing intentional switching of auditory selective attention in children and adults in an experiment suited for children
T2  - Proceedings of the 23rd International Congress on Acoustics : integrating 4th EAA Euroregio 2019 : 9-13 September 2019 in Aachen, Germany
N2  - A remarkable part of children’ s development and education happens in educational institutions. Acoustic environments in these institutions are usually highly complex and noisy, hence it is demanding to identify relevant target speakers and to ignore irrelevant sounds. Previous research has analyzed auditory selective attention in adults, both in dichotic and binaural listening environments. Until now, there is little knowledge of auditory selective attention in children. In the present work, the original paradigm was adapted by using a task suited for children which included child-oriented elements. Further, the subject’s anthropometric sizes were considered for an aurally-accurate reproduction of the acoustic scene. Twenty-four adults and twenty-four children participated in an experiment on auditory selective attention. Noise and noise-free conditions and various target-distractor distributions in the room were analyzed among others. The result of this experiment revealed significant differences between adults and children, especially in the way auditory attention was influenced by noise.
KW  - auditory selective attention
KW  - complex acoustic scenes
KW  - binaural reproduction
Y1  - 2019
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/84253
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-842537
UR  - https://pub.dega-akustik.de/ICA2019/data/articles/000575.pdf
SN  - 978-3-939296-15-7
SN  - 3677-3678
SP  - 3677
EP  - 3678
PB  - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Akustik
CY  - Berlin
ER  -