Cortical processing of distracting speech in noisy auditory scenes depends on perceptual demand

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Lars Hausfeld, Martha Shiell, Elia Formisano, Lars Riecke

Published: 01 Jan 2021, Last Modified: 15 May 2025NeuroImage 2021EveryoneRevisionsBibTeXCC BY-SA 4.0
Abstract: Highlights•Naturalistic three-speaker scenes and selective listening task.•Varied perceptual demand through manipulation of target segregation cue (ITD).•EEG signal modeling of cortical processing.•Stronger segregation between irrelevant speech under low perceptual demand.•Suggests that demand determines resources for processing irrelevant sounds.