Publisher Summary Environmental noise can affect acoustic communication through limiting
the broadcast area, or active space, of a signal by decreasing signal-to-noise ratios at the …

Humans and other animals can attend to one of multiple sounds and follow it selectively
over time. The neural underpinnings of this perceptual feat remain mysterious. Some studies …

We might be forced to listen to a high-frequency tone at our audiologist's office or we might
enjoy falling asleep with a white-noise machine, but the sounds that really matter to us are …

Animals often use acoustic signals to communicate in groups or social aggregations in
which multiple individuals signal within a receiver's hearing range. Consequently, receivers …

When dealing with natural scenes, sensory systems have to process an often messy and
ambiguous flow of information. A stable perceptual organization nevertheless has to be …

Just as the visual system parses complex scenes into identifiable objects, the auditory
system must organize sound elements scattered in frequency and time into coherent" …

A general assumption underlying auditory scene analysis is that the initial grou** of
acoustic elements is independent of attention. The effects of attention on auditory stream …

Acoustic sequences such as speech and music are generally perceived as coherent
auditory" streams," which can be individually attended to and followed over time. Although …

Segmenting the complex acoustic mixture that makes a typical auditory scene into relevant
perceptual objects is one of the main challenges of the auditory system [1], for both human …

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 …