Hearing: representing the aural wallpaper

David McAlpine

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2018.04.011

Hearing: representing the aural wallpaper

David McAlpine

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Human listeners appear to represent the textures of sounds through a process of automatic time averaging that exists beyond volition. This process distils likely background sounds into their summary statistics, a computationally efficient way of dealing with complex auditory scenes.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	R610-R612
Number of pages	3
Journal	Current Biology
Volume	28
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2018.04.011
Publication status	Published - 21 May 2018

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