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 …

Auditory perception is our main gateway to communication with others via speech and
music, and it also plays an important role in alerting and orienting us to new events. This …

This chapter looks at a range of auditory display and sonification applications that have
tackled the problem of monitoring real-time data streams and concludes with some …

By Fourier's theorem, signals can be decomposed into a sum of sinusoids of different
frequencies. This is especially relevant for hearing, because the inner ear performs a form of …

Although we have convincing evidence that attention to auditory stimuli modulates neuronal
responses at or before the level of primary auditory cortex (A1), the underlying physiological …

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

The traditional rules of voice-leading in Western music are explicated using experimentally
established perceptual principles. Six core principles are shown to account for the majority …

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 …

Two pairs of experiments studied the effects of attention and of unilateral neglect on auditory
streaming. The first pair showed that the build up of auditory streaming in normal participants …

Often, the sound arriving at the ears is a mixture from many different sources, but only 1 is of
interest. To assist with selection, the auditory system structures the incoming input into …