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The role of auditory source and action representations in segmenting experience into events
Sounds are generated by interactions between objects in the world and carry information about the sound’s sources and the objects’ sound-generating actions. This dual nature of auditory information poses a pro...
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Open AccessEarly maturation of sound duration processing in the infant’s brain
The ability to process sound duration is crucial already at a very early age for laying the foundation for the main functions of auditory perception, such as object perception and music and language acquisitio...
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Open AccessRelevance to the higher order structure may govern auditory statistical learning in neonates
Hearing is one of the earliest senses to develop and is quite mature by birth. Contemporary theories assume that regularities in sound are exploited by the brain to create internal models of the environment. T...
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Open AccessShort-term cognitive fatigue effect on auditory temporal order judgments
Fatigue is a core symptom in many psychological disorders and it can strongly influence everyday productivity. As fatigue effects have been typically demonstrated after long hours of time on task, it was surpr...
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The effects of attention and task-relevance on the processing of syntactic violations during listening to two concurrent speech streams
The notion of automatic syntactic analysis received support from some event-related potential (ERP) studies. However, none of these studies tested syntax processing in the presence of a concurrent speech strea...
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Open AccessSimilar but separate systems underlie perceptual bistability in vision and audition
The dynamics of perceptual bistability, the phenomenon in which perception switches between different interpretations of an unchanging stimulus, are characterised by very similar properties across a wide range...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Relative Pitch Perception and the Detection of Deviant Tone Patterns
Most people are able to recognise familiar tunes even when played in a different key. It is assumed that this depends on a general capacity for relative pitch perception; the ability to recognise the pattern o...
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Predictive Regularity Representations in Violation Detection and Auditory Stream Segregation: From Conceptual to Computational Models
Predictive accounts of perception have received increasing attention in the past 20 years. Detecting violations of auditory regularities, as reflected by the Mismatch Negativity (MMN) auditory event-related po...
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What controls gain in gain control? Mismatch negativity (MMN), priors and system biases
Repetitious patterns enable the auditory system to form prediction models specifying the most likely characteristics of subsequent sounds. Pattern deviations elicit mismatch negativity (MMN), the amplitude of ...
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Recording Event-Related Brain Potentials: Application to Study Auditory Perception
The last decade has seen an explosion of research in auditory perception and cognition. This growing activity encompasses neurophysiological research in nonhuman species, computational modeling of basic neurop...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Stability of Perceptual Organisation in Auditory Streaming
In everyday situations, we perceive sounds organised according to their source, and can follow someone’s speech or a musical piece in the presence of other sounds without apparent effort. Thus, it is surprisin...
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The role of attention in the formation of auditory streams
There is controversy over whether stream segregation is an attention-dependent process. Part of the argument is related to the initial formation of auditory streams. It has been suggested that attention is nee...
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Preattentive auditory context effects
The effects of auditory context on the preattentive and perceptual organization of tone sequences were investigated. Two sets of experiments were conducted in which the pitch of contextual tones was varied, br...
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Change Detection in Complex Auditory Environment: Beyond the Oddball Paradigm
New auditory information usually appears as a change in some parameter of the acoustic input. Detecting and processing change are, therefore, important functions of the human auditory system. Studying how the ...
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Event-related brain potentials reflect traces of echoic memory in humans
In sequences of identical auditory stimuli, infrequent deviant stimuli elicit an event-related brain potential component called mismatch negativity (MMN). MMN is presumed to reflect the existence of a memory t...
