Neural Correlates of Auditory Object Perception

  • Jan W. H. Schnupp
  • Christian Honey
  • Ben D. B. Willmore
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Part of the Springer Handbook of Auditory Research book series (SHAR, volume 45)

Abstract

As you sit in front of this book, reading these words, pause for a moment, listen, and ask yourself: What do I hear? Perhaps you hear some conversations going on in the background, some devices making noises of various kinds (an almost omnipresent feature of the modern world). Or perhaps you are in an unusually quiet place, and there is effectively nothing to hear. Almost certain is that you would not describe your auditory experience as one of oscillating air pressure in your ear canals that gently wiggle your ear drums. Yet strictly speaking, on the surface of it, that is all there ever is to “hearing.”

Keywords

acoustics categorical perception cortex electrophysiology ­invariance phonemes scene analysis segregation sound speech timbre vocalization 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Jan W. H. Schnupp
    • 1
  • Christian Honey
    • 1
  • Ben D. B. Willmore
    • 1
  1. 1.Department of Physiology, Anatomy and GeneticsUniversity of OxfordOxfordUK

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