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A study finds that sound textures are stored in auditory memory as summary statistics representing the sound over long time scales; specific events are superimposed, forming a 'skeleton of events on a bed of texture'.

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Figure 1: Auditory spectrograms of different textures.

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  1. Israel Nelken is in the Department of Neuroscience, the Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, and the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel,

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  2. Alain de Cheveigné is at the CNRS, the Université Paris Descartes and the Ecole normale supérieure, Paris, France, and University College London, London, UK.,

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Nelken, I., de Cheveigné, A. An ear for statistics. Nat Neurosci 16, 381–382 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.3360

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