Subject: defining a 'fixation point' in audition From: "ftordini@xxxxxxxx" <ftordini@xxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 21:40:33 +0200 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>Dear list members, I am in the process of redesigning a test dealing with attention and auditory saliency but then I have a doubt about how to define, and possibly control, the 'fixation point' (in the case of sound stimuli). I am using headphones, so head-tracking is not an option, I believe. I also have thought that, giving credit to a supramodal model of attention, I could provide a visual fixation point (a cross on the screen) but this would be a fallback solution since I would like to keep it unimodal at this stage (and I am addressing stimulus-driven attention). This may sound as a very naive question to most of you, but I am turning it to the community since I always got precious comments and feedback in the past. Best regards Francesco -- Francesco Tordini ► skype francesco.tordini PhD Student ► http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/sre/personnel/ Centre for Intelligent Machines and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering McGill University 3480 University Street, Room 426 Montreal, QC, H3A 0E9, Canada | T: (514) 398 8201 _________________________________________________