The “cocktail party problem” requires us to discern individual sound sources from mixtures of
sources. The brain must use knowledge of natural sound regularities for this purpose. One …

Sound systems and speech technologies can benefit greatly from a deeper understanding of
how the auditory system, and particularly the auditory cortex, is able to parse complex …

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 …

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

The auditory surrounding is often complex with many sound sources active simultaneously.
Yet listeners are proficient in breaking apart the composite acoustic wave reaching the ears …

Auditory scene analysis is critical for complex auditory processing. We study auditory
segregation from the neural network perspective, and develop a framework for primitive …

Harmonic complex tones are a particularly important class of sounds found in both speech
and music. Although these sounds contain multiple frequency components, they are usually …

In noisy social gatherings, listeners perceptually integrate sounds originating from one
person's voice (eg, fundamental frequency (f 0) and harmonics) at a particular location and …

The ability to attend to a particular sound in a noisy environment is an essential aspect of
hearing. To accomplish this feat, the auditory system must segregate sounds that overlap in …

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 …