Control of involuntary orienting of attention toward new but task-irrelevant events is essential
to successfully perform a task. We investigated top-down control of involuntary orienting of …

Task-irrelevant sounds can lead to costs in performance due to the orienting of attention
toward the distracting event. Under certain circumstances, motivationally significant sounds …

Surprisingly occurring sounds outside the focus of attention can involuntarily capture
attention. This study focuses on the impact of deviant sounds on the pupil size as a marker of …

Focusing on relevant and ignoring irrelevant information is essential for many learning
processes. The present study investigated attention-related brain activity and pupil dilation …

The present study aimed to test effects of unexpected task-irrelevant environmental sounds,
that were short-term learned to be significant, on deviance-related brain activity (event …

In a passive auditory oddball event-related potential study, the processing of short (100ms)
and long (500ms) novels and pitch deviant tones was investigated in three age groups (6–8 …

OBJECTIVE: We investigated differences between children and adults in selective attention.
METHODS: Event-related potentials of 9 year-old children and adults were studied. Subjects …

Introduction Being exposed to an irrelevant sound that deviates from the auditory scene can
disrupt performance on an ongoing task. This deviation effect is usually explained in terms of …

The involuntary capture of attention by unexpected stimuli occurring outside the current
focus 58 of attention enables the detection of potentially relevant events in the environment …

Previous work has shown that the eye's pupil dilates briefly after salient auditory stimuli,
reflecting a transient orienting response to sensory input. Here we studied this phenomenon …