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Computational Models of Auditory Stream Segregation

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Auditory stream segregation is a fundamental process that allows us to segregate and focus on distinct sound streams (e.g., voices) in a dynamic noisy environment. Stream segregation has been widely studied with the auditory streaming paradigm, a relatively idealized stimulus for which two sequences of pure tones can be segregated in different streams. Our understanding – still far from complete – of this process is informed by a wealth of behavioral experiments, electrophysiology, brain imaging, and theoretical modelling. This review will highlight modelling efforts that have advanced our understanding of this important dynamical process.

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Auditory scene analysis involves segregating a complex scene into objects or streams (recent reviews: Bendixen (2014) and Snyder and Elhilali (2017)). A valued paradigm involves segregating two interleaved sequences of A tones and B tones repeating in an ABA_ pattern and separable by a perceived difference in pure...

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Funding

Rankin acknowledges support from an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) New Investigator Award (EP/R03124X/1) and from the EPSRC Centre for Predictive Modelling in Healthcare (EP/N014391/1). This is a review study, and as such did not generate any new data.

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    James Rankin

  2. Center for Neural Science & Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, New York, NY, USA

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Rankin, J., Rinzel, J. (2019). Computational Models of Auditory Stream Segregation. In: Jaeger, D., Jung, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7320-6_100685-1

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