Attention prioritizes certain information at the expense of other information in ways that are
similar across vision, audition, and other sensory modalities. It influences how—and even …

Statistical learning is a robust mechanism of the brain that enables the extraction of
environmental patterns, which is crucial in perceptual and cognitive domains. However, the …

The ability to distinguish between an individual's own actions and those of another person is
a requirement for successful joint action, particularly in domains such as group music …

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

At any given moment, we experience a perceptual scene as a single whole and yet we may
distinguish a variety of objects within it. This phenomenon instantiates two properties of …

Auditory signals arrive at the ear as a mixture that the brain must decompose into distinct
sources based to a large extent on acoustic properties of the sounds. An important question …

When listening to music, humans spontaneously perceive and synchronize movement to
periodic pulses of meter. A growing body of evidence suggests that this widespread ability is …

Sequential stream segregation by normal hearing (NH) and cochlear implant (CI) listeners
was investigated using an irregular rhythm detection (IRD) task. Pure tones and narrowband …

Two experiments explored the effects of abrupt transitions in timbral properties [amplitude
modulation (AM), pure tones vs narrow-band noises, and attack/decay envelope] on …

Chapter 4 ended with the remark that the formation of an auditory unit can be strongly
affected by sound components that precede and follow that auditory unit. This chapter …