Auditory perception of the depth of space is based mainly on spectral and amplitude changes of sound waves originating from the sound source and reaching the listener. The perceptive illusion of movement of an auditory image caused by changes in amplitude and/or frequency of the signal tone emanating from an immobile loudspeaker was studied. Analysis of data obtained from the participants revea...

The temporal context of an acoustic signal can greatly influence its perception. The present study investigated the neural correlates underlying perceptual facilitation by regular temporal contexts in humans. Participants listened to temporally regular (periodic) or temporally irregular (nonperiodic) sequences of tones while performing an intensity discrimination task. Participants performed si...

Nowadays, three kinds of theories still discuss the nature of speech units: auditory theories (Diehl, Lotto, and Holt 2004), motor theories (Galantucci, Fowler, and Turvey 2006) and perceptuo-motor theories (Schwartz et al. 2012). Briefly, supporters of the auditory (resp. motor, perceptuo-motor) theories claim that speech units are represented in the brain by auditory (resp. motor, perceptuo-m...

It is known from psychology and neuroscience that multimodal integration of sensory information enhances the perception of stimuli that are corrupted in one or more modalities. A prominent example of this is that auditory perception of speech is enhanced when speech is bimodal, i.e. when it also has a visual modality. The function of the cortical network processing speech in auditory and visual...

Speech, for most of us, is a bimodal percept whenever we both hear the voice and see the lip movements of a speaker. Children who are born deaf never have this bimodal experience. We tested children who had been deaf from birth and who subsequently received cochlear implants for their ability to fuse the auditory information provided by their implants with visual information about lip movements...

According to DSM-IV-TR, a hallucination is “a sensory perception that has a compelling sense of reality of a true perception, but occurs without external stimulation of the relevant sensory organ.” Thus, an auditory hallucination is a false perception of sound. These are the most common forms of hallucinations (1). Auditory hallucinations are found most often in patients with schizophrenia, wit...

BACKGROUND Vision provides the most salient information with regard to the stimulus motion. However, it has recently been demonstrated that static visual stimuli are perceived as moving laterally by alternating left-right sound sources. The underlying mechanism of this phenomenon remains unclear; it has not yet been determined whether auditory motion signals, rather than auditory positional sig...

When we intend to grasp a sound target, perhaps its signal is in the presence of competing signals. An effective solution is to concentrate on the target’s sound features selected and extracted from the various mixed auditory features. This is so-called auditory feature binding. It plays an important role in the cognitive and neuroscience. In this paper, we will describe the conceptual frame na...