Our ability to make sense of the auditory world results from neural processing that begins in
the ear, goes through multiple subcortical areas, and continues in the cortex. The specific …

Auditory scene analysis (ASA) refers to the process (es) of parsing the complex acoustic
input into auditory perceptual objects representing either physical sources or temporal …

Humans can easily focus on one speaker in a multi-talker acoustic environment, but how
different areas of the human auditory cortex (AC) represent the acoustic components of …

The ASA Press imprint represents a collaboration between the Acoustical Society of America
and Springer dedicated to encouraging the publication of important new books in acoustics …

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

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 …

Humans can easily tune in to one talker in a multitalker environment while still picking up
bits of background speech; however, it remains unclear how we perceive speech that is …

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

Perception of segregated sources is essential in navigating cluttered acoustic environments.
A basic mechanism to implement this process is the temporal coherence principle. It …

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 …