The mismatch negativity (MMN) is a brain response to violations of a rule, established by a
sequence of sensory stimuli (typically in the auditory domain)[Näätänen R. Attention and …

Theories of visual attention argue that attention operates on perceptual objects, and thus
that interactions between object formation and selective attention determine how competing …

Some fifty years after the first physiological studies of auditory attention, the field is now
ripening, with exciting recent insights into the psychophysics, psychology, and neural basis …

The fundamental perceptual unit in hearing is the'auditory object'. Similar to visual objects,
auditory objects are the computational result of the auditory system's capacity to detect …

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 …

Predictive processing of information is essential for goal-directed behavior. We offer an
account of auditory perception suggesting that representations of predictable patterns, or …

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

A common complaint among listeners with hearing loss (HL) is that they have difficulty
communicating in common social settings. This article reviews how normal-hearing listeners …

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 …

In everyday life we often listen to one sound, such as someone's voice, in a background of
competing sounds. To do this, we must assign simultaneously occurring frequency …