Many of us take for granted that what we perceive is a completely accurate representation of
the world around us. Yet we have all had the experience of suddenly realizing that the keys …

Auditory objects, like their visual counterparts, are perceptually defined constructs, but
nevertheless must arise from underlying neural circuitry. Using magnetoencephalography …

Communication by sounds requires that the communication channels (ie speech/speakers
and other sound sources) had been established. This allows to separate concurrently active …

Listening situations with multiple talkers or background noise are common in everyday
communication and are particularly demanding for older adults. Here we review current …

Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of
preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than a …

The notion of predictive sound processing suggests that the auditory system prepares for
upcoming sounds once it has detected regular features within a sequence. Here we …

The participants in the present study had to make speeded elevation discrimination
responses to visual targets presented to the left or right of central fixation following the …

Crossmodal selective attention was investigated in a cued task switching paradigm using
bimodal visual and auditory stimulation. A cue indicated the imperative modality. Three …

The topic of object perception is different from that of the objects of perception. The latter
deals with conceptual issues related to whether we perceive either extramental or mental …

Melody recognition entails the encoding of pitch intervals between successive notes. While it
has been shown that a whole melodic sequence is better encoded than the sum of its …