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Information Extraction and Perceptual Grouping in the Auditory System

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Human and Machine Perception

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In everyday life the sound reaching our ears often arises from several different sources. Each source has its own location in space, and has its own intensity, frequency content and time pattern. At our ears the sound from each source is superimposed, and the stimulus at each eardrum is simply variation in air pressure with time (about the mean value corresponding to atmospheric pressure), an apparently one-dimensional stimulus. The auditory system is capable of decomposing the sound wave, so each sound source is heard separately, in its appropriate place, and with its appropriate loudness, pitch, timbre (quality) and time pattern. How this remarkable feat is achieved is not fully understood. I will focus on those parts of the process that are reasonably well understood.

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Moore, B.C.J. (1997). Information Extraction and Perceptual Grouping in the Auditory System. In: Cantoni, V., Di Gesù, V., Setti, A., Tegolo, D. (eds) Human and Machine Perception. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5965-8_1

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