Distinct talkers combat catastrophic failures of spatial attention due to interruption

This is a behavioral dataset, containing 2 experiments. In both experiments, the listeners listened to two competing sounds streams (composed of /ba/, /ga/, and /da/) presented from different spatial directions. One of the direction is the target direction, and the listener's task is to report what they heard from the target direction. In each trial, there were 5 syllables in target stream and 5 syllables in distractor stream. In half of the trials, the trial was interrupted, with an interrupter sound occurred before the onset of the third target syllable. The 2 experiments included in this dataset explored impact of talker identity on spatial attention task performance: DSDT (different stream different talker)half of the trials were spoken by the same talker half of the trials were spoken by different talkers (one male, one female) SSDT (same stream different talker)half of the trials were spoken by the same talkerhalf of the trials had random talkers within each stream