A sequence of sounds may be heard as coming from a single source (called fusion or
coherence) or from two or more sources (called fission or stream segregation). Each …

Pitch is important for speech and music perception, and may also play a crucial role in our
ability to segregate sounds that arrive from different sources. This article reviews some basic …

Publisher Summary This chapter explores the grou** mechanisms in music. Music
provides a complexity, rapidly changing acoustic spectrum, often derived from the …

During sustained viewing of an ambiguous stimulus, an individual's perceptual experience
will generally switch between the different possible alternatives rather than stay fixed on one …

Auditory stream segregation (or streaming) is a phenomenon in which 2 or more repeating
sounds differing in at least 1 acoustic attribute are perceived as 2 or more separate sound …

What has transpired immediately before has a strong influence on how sensory stimuli are
processed and perceived. In particular, temporal context can have contrastive effects …

Auditory perception and cognition entails both low-level and high-level processes, which are
likely to interact with each other to create our rich conscious experience of soundscapes …

We argue that 4 fundamental gestalt phenomena in perception apply to the control of motor
action. First, a motor gestalt, like a perceptual gestalt, is holistic in the sense that it is …

Numerous factors contribute to understanding speech in noisy listening environments. There
is a clinical need for objective biological assessment of auditory factors that contribute to the …

The formation of echoic memory traces has traditionally been inferred from the enhanced
responses to its deviations. The mismatch negativity (MMN), an auditory event-related …