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XXIII Meeting of the Federation of European Physiological Societies & XLI Meeting of the Spanish Society for Physiological Sciences, Granada, Spain, 4 - 06 September 2024, vol.240, pp.80-81, (Summary Text)
Introduction/Objetives: The aim of the study is to investigate how this situation affects auditory and visual attention separately by creating a learning effect.
Materials and methods: 86 people without any health problems were included in the study. Monkey Business Illusion(MBI) video was used for the visual attention task. In this video, there were three types of situations that required attention. For the auditory attention task, pure sounds at four different frequencies (500, 1000, 2000, 4000 and 6000 Hz) were used. These sounds were embedded and integrated into the video. To create the learning effect, the Inattentional Blindness (IB) video, which is a video similar to the MBI video, and the same pure sounds were added into the video.Participants were first shown the IB video and were informed about situations requiring audio-visual attention. Afterwards, the participants were asked to watch the MBI video and tell when they heard the visually changing situations and the sounds coming from behind.
Results: The effect of learning on visual attention tasks was not observed to be statistically significant. However, in the auditory attention task, a statistically significant difference was found only in noticing the 6000 Hz pure tone.
Conclusion: The rationale for this result may be related to the first factor Inattentional Amnesia. Inattentional Amnesia is lower awareness during a difficult task and suggests that it may be due to a decrease in the encoding of critical stimuli into memory, and therefore, forgetting irrelevant or less important information. Hearing the 6000 Hz pure sound has the highest frequency compared to other pure sounds presented and may have been remarkable because it was at an unusual frequency