Troby Ka‐Yan Lui

A phase-based mechanism of attentional selection in the auditory system

The paper demonstrates that temporal predictability of auditory stimuli aligns beta oscillation phases in EEG, with opposite phases for relevant and distracting events, enhancing behavioral responses.

The inattentional rhythm in audition

The paper shows that auditory processing depends on neural oscillation phase when processing task-irrelevant tones, unlike visual processing, and demonstrates this through EEG data from human participants.

Predicting the irrelevant: Neural effects of distractor predictability depend on load

The paper investigates how predictable distractors affect neural responses and cognitive load during an auditory task, finding that predictability reduces uncertainty and impacts neural activity differently under varying loads.

Slow neural oscillations explain temporal fluctuations in distractibility

This study shows that human distractibility fluctuates on a subsecond timescale, linked to theta-band neural oscillations and pre-distractor neural phase in specific brain regions.

The vulnerability of working memory to distraction is rhythmic

This study shows that working memory vulnerability to distraction follows a rhythmic pattern, with 2.5-Hz cycles affecting both neural and behavioral measures of distraction.