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Previous research has demonstrated that a sequence of tones that is alternated between ears is stretched out in echoic memory, as compared with monaural sequences. Although the stimulus onset asynchronies (SOAs) were the same in the interaural and monaural conditions, the perceptual onset asynchronies (POAs) differed by 24 msec. The present study investigated whether an analogous perceptual phenomenon exists for frequency-alternating tone sequences. It turned out that the POAs of coherent and even of streaming tone sequences were precisely the same as with nonalternating tone sequences.
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This study was supported by a grant of The Netherlands Organization for the Advancement of Pure Research (ZWO).
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Hoopen, G.T., Van Meurs, G. & Akerboom, S. The perceived tempi of coherent and streaming tone sequences. Perception & Psychophysics 31, 256–260 (1982). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03202531
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