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For example, we wake up more easily when we hear our own name or a particularly salient sound such as an alarm clock or a fire alarm compared to equally loud but less relevant sounds.

Overall, bottom-up attention induced by a salient change in the auditory stream appears to mostly modulate the amplitude of the steady-state response and certain event-related potentials to salient sound events; though this modulation is affected by top-down attentional processes and the prominence of these events in the auditory scene as well.

Moreover, previous studies mostly employed either an auditory task or passive listening to salient sound stimuli to obtain sufficiently high evoked response amplitudes.

Our new results imply that the very simple manipulation of merely presenting a salient sound can causally impact upon visual oscillations and related visual perception and can thereby serve for experimental control of brain oscillations to probe their functional roles.

In any case the prediction error resulting from a salient sound (with no complementing prediction) will call for attention as a considerable model configuration is required, which may engage voluntary attention.

Here we build on but go beyond such work to show that mere onset of a salient sound can phase-lock human visual alpha phase, realigning periodic sampling with direct consequences for human perception, as indicated by changes in phosphene perception.

The salient sounds are splishes, splashes, drips and gurgles of actual water.

Clicks are extremely salient sounds perceptually and therefore are ideally adapted to transmitting a language.

Biologically salient sounds, including speech, are rarely heard in isolation.

Here we addressed this issue using the paradigm of emotionally salient sounds.

Patients with bvFTD, SD, and AD showed altered coupling between pupillary and affective behavioral responses to emotionally salient sounds.