A Neural Oscillator Model of Auditory Selective Attention

A model of auditory grouping is described in which auditory attention plays a key role. The model is based upon an oscillatory correlation framework, in which neural oscillators representing a single perceptual stream are synchronised, and are desynchronised from oscillators representing other streams. The model suggests a mechanism by which attention can be directed to the high or low tones in a repeating sequence of tones with alternating frequencies. In addition, it simulates the perceptual segregation of a mistuned harmonic from a complex tone.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2001
• Where: NIPS
• Authors: Stuart N. Wrigley, Guy J. Brown
• Keywords: Auditory Attention, NIPS 2001, NIPS 2007, Oscillatory Correlation Framework, Single Perceptual Stream