The association between hearing impairment and dementia has emerged as a major public
health challenge, with significant opportunities for earlier diagnosis, treatment and …

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 …

Natural auditory environments, be they cocktail parties or rain forests, contain many things
that concurrently make sounds. The cocktail party problem is the task of hearing a sound of …

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

Multistable perception is the spontaneous alternation between two or more perceptual states
that occurs when sensory information is ambiguous. Multistable phenomena permit …

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" …

Understanding speech in background noise is challenging for every listener, including those
with normal peripheral hearing. This difficulty is attributable in part to the disruptive effects of …

Identification and extraction of singing voice from within musical mixtures is a key challenge
in source separation and machine audition. Recently, deep neural networks (DNN) have …