Dimensionally Specific Attention Capture in Birds Performing Auditory Streaming Task

This article examines the roles of platform-based distribution and user data in the digital music economy. Drawing on trade press, newspaper coverage, and a consumer privacy complaint, we offer a critical analysis of tech-music partnerships forged between Samsung and Jay-Z (2013), Apple iTunes Store and U2 (2014), Tidal and Kanye West (2016), and Apple Music and Drake (2017). In these cases, information technology (IT) companies supported album releases, and music was used to generate user data and attention: logics of data and attention capture were interwoven. The IT and music industries have adapted their business strategies to what we conceptualize as platform-based capital accumulation or ‘platform accumulation’, and models centred on controlling access and extracting rent have enabled the emergence of new monopolies and IT gatekeepers.

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The effects of display context on the effectiveness of visual onsets for attention capture

20th DASC. 20th Digital Avionics Systems Conference (Cat. No.01CH37219) ◽

10.1109/dasc.2001.963386 ◽

2002 ◽

Author(s):

M.I. Nikolic ◽

J. Orr ◽

N.B. Sarter

Keyword(s):

Attention Capture

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The initial phase of auditory and visual scene analysis

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ◽

10.1098/rstb.2011.0368 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 367 (1591) ◽

pp. 942-953 ◽

Cited By ~ 21

Author(s):

Jean-Michel Hupé ◽

Daniel Pressnitzer

Keyword(s):

Perceptual Organization ◽

Initial Phase ◽

Stimulus Presentation ◽

Visual Scene ◽

Scene Analysis ◽

Systematic Bias ◽

Auditory Streaming ◽

Neurophysiological Data ◽

Presentation Organization ◽

Over Time

Auditory streaming and visual plaids have been used extensively to study perceptual organization in each modality. Both stimuli can produce bistable alternations between grouped (one object) and split (two objects) interpretations. They also share two peculiar features: (i) at the onset of stimulus presentation, organization starts with a systematic bias towards the grouped interpretation; (ii) this first percept has ‘inertia’; it lasts longer than the subsequent ones. As a result, the probability of forming different objects builds up over time, a landmark of both behavioural and neurophysiological data on auditory streaming. Here we show that first percept bias and inertia are independent. In plaid perception, inertia is due to a depth ordering ambiguity in the transparent (split) interpretation that makes plaid perception tristable rather than bistable: experimental manipulations removing the depth ambiguity suppressed inertia. However, the first percept bias persisted. We attempted a similar manipulation for auditory streaming by introducing level differences between streams, to bias which stream would appear in the perceptual foreground. Here both inertia and first percept bias persisted. We thus argue that the critical common feature of the onset of perceptual organization is the grouping bias, which may be related to the transition from temporally/spatially local to temporally/spatially global computation.

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