This study investigated whether the apparent completeness of the acoustic speech signal during phonemic restoration derives from a process of auditory induction (Warren, 1984) or segregation, or whether it is an auditory illusion that accompanies the completion of an abstract phonological representation. Specifically, five experiments tested the prediction of the auditory induction (segregation...

Studies of auditory scene analysis have traditionally relied on paradigms using artificial sounds—and conventional behavioral techniques—to elucidate how we perceptually segregate auditory objects or streams from each other. In the past few decades, however, there has been growing interest in uncovering the neural underpinnings of auditory segregation using human and animal neuroscience techniq...

The peripheral and central auditory systems undergo tremendous changes with normal aging. In this review, we focus on the effects of age on processing complex acoustic signals (such as speech and music) amid other sounds, which requires a set of computations known as auditory scene analysis. Auditory scene analysis is the process whereby the brain assigns parts of the acoustic wave derived from...

One of the fundamental questions of auditory research is how sounds are segregated because, in natural environments, multiple sounds tend to occur at the same time. Concurrent sounds, such as two talkers, physically add together and arrive at the ear as a single input sound wave. The auditory system easily segregates this input into a coherent perception of each of the multiple sources. A commo...

Auditory stream segregation (or streaming) is a phenomenon in which 2 or more repeating sounds differing in at least 1 acoustic attribute are perceived as 2 or more separate sound sources (i.e., streams). This article selectively reviews psychophysical and computational studies of streaming and comprehensively reviews more recent neurophysiological studies that have provided important insights ...

21 One of the fundamental questions of auditory research is how sounds are segregated, since, in 22 natural environments, multiple sounds tend to occur at the same time. Concurrent sounds, such as two 23 talkers, physically add together and arrive at the ear as a single input sound wave. The auditory system 24 easily segregates this input into a coherent percept of each of the multiple sources....