{"id":3744,"date":"2025-11-26T10:18:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T09:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/akustik\/?p=3744"},"modified":"2025-11-26T10:18:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T09:18:01","slug":"paper-published-exploring-auditory-selective-attention-shifts-in-virtual-reality-an-approach-with-matrix-sentences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/akustik\/paper-published-exploring-auditory-selective-attention-shifts-in-virtual-reality-an-approach-with-matrix-sentences\/","title":{"rendered":"Paper published: Exploring auditory selective attention shifts in virtual reality: An approach with matrix sentences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are happy to share that our paper <em data-start=\"598\" data-end=\"701\">\u201cExploring auditory selective attention shifts in virtual reality: An approach with matrix sentences\u201d<\/em> has been published in the <strong data-start=\"728\" data-end=\"776\">Journal of the Acoustical Society of America<\/strong>:<br data-start=\"777\" data-end=\"780\" \/><a class=\"decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1121\/10.0039864\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\" data-start=\"783\" data-end=\"817\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1121\/10.0039864<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"819\" data-end=\"1126\">In this study, we explored <strong data-start=\"846\" data-end=\"898\">voluntary shifts of auditory selective attention<\/strong> in <strong data-start=\"902\" data-end=\"957\">complex and more naturalistic acoustic environments<\/strong>. To move beyond earlier paradigms based on single-word stimuli, we introduced <strong data-start=\"1036\" data-end=\"1077\">unpredictable German matrix sentences<\/strong> to simulate more realistic listening conditions.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p data-start=\"1128\" data-end=\"1457\">Overall results were comparable to previous versions, but no strong reorienting effect emerged. Interaction patterns still indicate that <strong data-start=\"1265\" data-end=\"1334\">shifting auditory attention is more demanding than maintaining it<\/strong>, and that <strong data-start=\"1345\" data-end=\"1389\">preparing attention benefits performance<\/strong>, as reflected in decreasing reaction times for later target onsets.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p data-start=\"1459\" data-end=\"1667\">This approach contributes a paradigm for investigating <strong data-start=\"1514\" data-end=\"1589\">auditory perception and attention in dynamic room acoustic environments<\/strong>, helping to close the gap between laboratory setups and real-world listening.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1669\" data-end=\"1775\">This work was created by <strong>Carolin Breuer and Janina Fels<\/strong> and was funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) as part of the Priority Program <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spp2236-audictive.de\/\">SPP2236 AUDICTIVE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are happy to share that our paper \u201cExploring auditory selective attention shifts in virtual reality: An approach with matrix sentences\u201d has been published in the Journal of the Acoustical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3693,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"c2c_always_allow_admin_comments":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,4,45,6,1,44,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asa","category-binaural","category-current","category-hta","category-ihta","category-research","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/akustik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/akustik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/akustik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/akustik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3693"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/akustik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3744"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/akustik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3764,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/akustik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3744\/revisions\/3764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/akustik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/akustik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/akustik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}