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Hearing and communication present a variety of challenges to the nervous system. To be heard and to be understood, an auditory signal must be transformed from a time-varying acoustic waveform to a perceptual representation and then to an abstract representation that combines this perceptual representation with memory stores and semantic/referential information (Griffiths & Warren, 2004). Finally, this abstract representation must be interpreted to form a categorical decision that guides behavior. Did I hear the stimulus? From where and whom did it come? What does it tell me? How can I use this information to plan an action? All of these issues and questions underlie auditory cognition.
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Cohen, Y.E. (2013). Auditory Cognition: The Integration of Psychophysics with Neurophysiology. In: Cohen, Y., Popper, A., Fay, R. (eds) Neural Correlates of Auditory Cognition. Springer Handbook of Auditory Research, vol 45. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-2350-8_1
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