Deep learning and predictive coding architectures commonly assume that inference in
neural networks is hierarchical. However, largely neglected in deep learning and predictive …

Attention is a hypothetical mechanism in the service of perception that facilitates the
processing of relevant information and inhibits the processing of irrelevant information …

The ASA Press imprint represents a collaboration between the Acoustical Society of America
and Springer dedicated to encouraging the publication of important new books in acoustics …

Many sound sources emit signals in a predictable manner. The idea that predictability can
be exploited to support the segregation of one source's signal emissions from the …

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

Predictive coding is arguably the currently dominant theoretical framework for the study of
perception. It has been employed to explain important auditory perceptual phenomena, and …

In ambiguous or conflicting sensory situations, perception is often 'multistable'in that it
perpetually changes at irregular intervals, shifting abruptly between distinct alternatives. The …

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) …

Events not conforming to a regularity inherent to a sequence of events elicit prediction error
signals of the brain such as the Mismatch Negativity (MMN) and impair behavioral task …

How perception of sensory stimuli emerges from brain activity is a fundamental question of
neuroscience. To date, two disparate lines of research have examined this question. On one …