End-to-end learning models have demonstrated a remarkable capability in performing
speech segregation. Despite their wide-scope of real-world applications, little is known …

How do we know that a melody is a melody? In other words, how does the human brain
extract melody from a polyphonic musical context? This thesis begins with a theoretical …

At a cocktail party, we can broadly monitor the entire acoustic scene to detect important cues
(eg, our names being called, or the fire alarm going off), or selectively listen to a target sound …

Listening in an acoustically cluttered scene remains a difficult task for both machines and
hearing-impaired listeners. Normal-hearing listeners accomplish this task with relative ease …

The “cocktail party problem” refers to the ability of human listeners to separate the acoustic
signal reaching their ears into its individual components, corresponding to individual sound …

Humans make extensive use of auditory cues to interact with other humans, especially in
challenging real-world acoustic environments. Multiple distinct acoustic events usually mix …

Multimodal integration is an important process in perceptual decision-making. In humans,
this process has often been shown to be statistically optimal, or near optimal: sensory …

In social settings, speech waveforms from nearby speakers mix together in our ear canals.
The brain unmixes the attended speech stream from the chorus of background speakers …

We propose that listeners can use temporal regularities–spectro-temporal correlations that
change smoothly over time–to discriminate animal vocalizations within and between …

Previous psychophysical studies have identified a hierarchy of time-averaged statistics
which determine the identity of natural sound textures. However, it is unclear whether the …