Regular background rhythm
1 paper2 findings
- 1 lab in 1 country
- Funder: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
- Humans1
Outcomes
2Selective listening
no changein humans1
1 study
Selective listening
no changein humans1
Regular background rhythm has no effect on selective listening in humans.
“listeners were not sensitive to the rhythmic regularity of the background sequences.”
Human trialRepeating vowel-like background stimulus easily distinguished from the target vowel sequence
Aging and the effect of background rhythm on selective listening in multiple-source environments
Hearing research13 Aug 2025
Vowel identification rate
downin humans1
1 study
Vowel identification rate
downin humans1
Regular background rhythm decreases vowel identification rate in humans.
“regular backgrounds led to lower vowel identification rates than irregular backgrounds.”
Human trialBackground vowels differed from target vowels only in fundamental frequency; regular versus irregular backgrounds
Aging and the effect of background rhythm on selective listening in multiple-source environments
Hearing research13 Aug 2025
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Aging and the effect of background rhythm on selective listening in multiple-source environments
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