TY  - JOUR
A1  - Teng, Xiangbin
A1  - Tian, Xing
A1  - Poeppel, David
T1  - Testing multi-scale processing in the auditory system
T2  - Scientific reports
N2  - Natural sounds contain information on multiple timescales, so the auditory system must analyze and integrate acoustic information on those different scales to extract behaviorally relevant information. However, this multi-scale process in the auditory system is not widely investigated in the literature, and existing models of temporal integration are mainly built upon detection or recognition tasks on a single timescale. Here we use a paradigm requiring processing on relatively ‘local’ and ‘global’ scales and provide evidence suggesting that the auditory system extracts fine-detail acoustic information using short temporal windows and uses long temporal windows to abstract global acoustic patterns. Behavioral task performance that requires processing fine-detail information does not improve with longer stimulus length, contrary to predictions of previous temporal integration models such as the multiple-looks and the spectro-temporal excitation pattern model. Moreover, the perceptual construction of putatively ‘unitary’ auditory events requires more than hundreds of milliseconds. These findings support the hypothesis of a dual-scale processing likely implemented in the auditory cortex.
KW  - Cortex
KW  - Human behaviour
Y1  - 2016
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/46860
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-468607
SN  - 2045-2322
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VL  - 6
IS  - Art. 34390
SP  - 1
EP  - 13
PB  - Macmillan Publishers Limited, part of Springer Nature
CY  - [London]
ER  -