Stability of Perceptual Organisation in Auditory Streaming

Denham, Susan; Gyimesi, Kinga; Stefanics, Gábor; Winkler, István

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“…This suggests that perceptual experience during the start up may be rather different from that later in the sequence, and indeed, this is the case. In our experiments, we found evidence for strong differences between the initial phase and subsequent ones [51], as is also the case in visual bi-stability [58]. Denham et al [51] analysed the continuous record of the participants' reports of their perception in terms of 'perceptual phases', the continuous intervals within which the participant marked that he/she perceived the sound sequence in the same way.…”

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“…Both sets of tones contained small, random variations in frequency and intensity identical to Condition 1 reported in Bendixen et al [48]. Participants continuously indicated their perception, and their reports were analysed as described in Bendixen et al [48] and Denham et al [51]. Figure 2 shows the time course of the probability of reporting the segregated percept, averaged across 30 participants.…”

Section: Review Multistability In Auditory Streaming I Winkler Et Amentioning

confidence: 95%

“…Note that there may be even more ways of perceiving this stimulus sequence [33,51]. Yet conceiving, the Segregated organization as one of the competitors already reveals a complication with this account: it implies that the percepts 'repetition of A' and 'repetition of B' always come as a pair.…”

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“…Checking all possible combinations of perceptual proto-objects for their compatibility requires full synchronization among them, including aligning proto-objects with different temporal cycles, which is computationally highly demanding. Thus, with an increasing number of proto-objects (the case of multi-as opposed to bi-stability in perception; see these auditory [48,51] and visual [68] studies showing multi-stability), forming several organizations and establishing competition between them poses specific implementation problems for the hierarchical competition solution.…”

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Multistability in auditory stream segregation: a predictive coding view

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Auditory stream segregation involves linking temporally separate acoustic events into one or more coherent sequences. For any non-trivial sequence of sounds, many alternative descriptions can be formed, only one or very few of which emerge in awareness at any time. Evidence from studies showing bi-/multistability in auditory streaming suggest that some, perhaps many of the alternative descriptions are represented in the brain in parallel and that they continuously vie for conscious perception. Here, based on a predictive coding view, we consider the nature of these sound representations and how they compete with each other. Predictive processing helps to maintain perceptual stability by signalling the continuation of previously established patterns as well as the emergence of new sound sources. It also provides a measure of how well each of the competing representations describes the current acoustic scene. This account of auditory stream segregation has been tested on perceptual data obtained in the auditory streaming paradigm.

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Multistability in auditory stream segregation: a predictive coding view

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Denham

Mill

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“…Depending on the amount of feature difference and the rate of tone presentation, participants tend to perceive the 'ABA-' sequence as originating from one sound source (integrated) with a galloping rhythm, or from two different sound sources (segregated), one made up of the 'A' tones, and the other made up of the 'B' tones repeating at half the rate of the 'A' tones [3,7]. With prolonged exposure to such sequences, perception switches back and forth between the integrated and segregated (and possibly Manuscript submitted to Acta Acustica Bendixen et al 5 other) alternatives [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]. This perceptual bi-or multistability has been interpreted as a sign of the system exploring different grouping alternatives [16][17][18].…”

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Feature Predictability Flexibly Supports Auditory Stream Segregation or Integration

Bendixen

Denham

Winkler

2014

Acta Acustica united with Acustica

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Many sound sources emit series of discrete sounds. Auditory perception must bind these sounds together (stream integration) while separating them from sounds emitted by other sources (stream segregation). One cue for identifying successive sounds that belong together is the predictability between their feature values. Previous studies have demonstrated that independent predictable patterns appearing separately in two interleaved sound sequences support perceptual segregation.The converse case, whether a joint predictable pattern in a mixture of interleaved sequences supports perceptual integration, has not yet been put to a rigorous empirical test. This was mainly due to difficulties in manipulating the predictability of the full sequence independently of the predictability of the interleaved subsequences. The present study implemented such an independent manipulation. Listeners continuously indicated whether they perceived a tone sequence as integrated or segregated, while predictable patterns set up to support one or the other percept were manipulated without the participants' knowledge. Perceptual reports demonstrate that predictability supports stream segregation or integration depending on the type of predictable pattern that is present in the sequence. The effects of predictability were so pronounced as to qualitatively flip perception from predominantly (62%) integrated to predominantly (73%) segregated. These results suggest that auditory perception flexibly responds to encountered regular patterns, favoring predictable perceptual organizations over unpredictable ones. Besides underlining the role of predictability as a cue within auditory scene analysis, the present design also provides a general

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Sensation and Perception

Proctor

2006

Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics

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Stability of Perceptual Organisation in Auditory Streaming

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Multistability in auditory stream segregation: a predictive coding view

Multistability in auditory stream segregation: a predictive coding view

Feature Predictability Flexibly Supports Auditory Stream Segregation or Integration

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