Rhythmic alternate prioritization in auditory feature-based attention (opens in new tab)

Accumulating evidence suggests that attentional resources are distributed in a rhythmically alternating fashion between several simultaneously competing inputs. Most past research on this topic has investigated the visual modality, with some evidence of rhythmic sampling in auditory spatial attention. Here, we tested whether rhythmic sampling also extends to the auditory feature domain. Twenty-five human participants performed a challenging feature-based auditory attention task. On each trial...