Predictive coding theories posit that the perceptual system is structured as a hierarchically
organized set of generative models with increasingly general models at higher levels. The …

Auditory stream segregation involves linking temporally separate acoustic events into one or
more coherent sequences. For any non-trivial sequence of sounds, many alternative …

A new approach for the segregation of monaural sound mixtures is presented based on the
principle of temporal coherence and using auditory cortical representations. Temporal …

Predictive accounts of perception have received increasing attention in the past 20 years.
Detecting violations of auditory regularities, as reflected by the Mismatch Negativity (MMN) …

Many sound sources can only be recognised from the pattern of sounds they emit, and not
from the individual sound events that make up their emission sequences. Auditory scene …

We select our actions according to the desired outcomes; for instance, piano players press
certain keys to generate specific musical notes. It is well‐described that the omission of a …

Regularities in a sequence of sounds can be automatically encoded in a predictive model by
the auditory system. When a sound deviates from the one predicted by the model, a …

In most everyday situations, multiple sound sources are concurrently active in the
environment. Based on the mixture of sounds arriving at the ears, the auditory system must …

While humans can easily segregate and track a speaker's voice in a loud noisy environment,
most modern speech recognition systems still perform poorly in loud background noise. The …

The general aim of my thesis is to investigate conscious and not-conscious processing of
sequences of stimuli that yield visual mismatch negativity (vMMN), a well-established brain …