To make sense of natural acoustic environments, listeners must parse complex mixtures of
sounds that vary in frequency, space, and time. Emerging work suggests that, in addition to …

Auditory figure–ground segregation, listeners' ability to selectively hear out a sound of
interest from a background of competing sounds, is a fundamental aspect of scene analysis …

The human brain has evolved to operate effectively in highly complex acoustic
environments, segregating multiple sound sources into perceptually distinct auditory objects …

Natural soundscapes often contain multiple sound sources at any given time. Numerous
studies have reported that in human observers, the perception and identification of …

In contrast to the complex acoustic environments we encounter everyday, most studies of
auditory segregation have used relatively simple signals. Here, we synthesized a new …

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 …

Studies of auditory scene analysis have traditionally relied on paradigms using artificial
sounds—and conventional behavioral techniques—to elucidate how we perceptually …

To clarify the role of spatial cues in sound segregation, this study explored whether
interaural time differences (ITDs) are sufficient to allow listeners to identify a novel sound …

Figure-ground segregation is fundamental to listening in complex acoustic environments. An
ongoing debate pertains to whether segregation requires attention or is “automatic” and …

Auditory object analysis requires two fundamental perceptual processes: the definition of the
boundaries between objects, and the abstraction and maintenance of an object's …