Testing multi-scale processing in the auditory system
- 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.
Author: | Xiangbin TengORCiD, Xing Tian, David PoeppelORCiDGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-468607 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1038/srep34390 |
ISSN: | 2045-2322 |
Pubmed Id: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27713546 |
Parent Title (English): | Scientific reports |
Publisher: | Macmillan Publishers Limited, part of Springer Nature |
Place of publication: | [London] |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Year of Completion: | 2016 |
Date of first Publication: | 2016/10/07 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2018/07/17 |
Tag: | Cortex; Human behaviour |
Volume: | 6 |
Issue: | Art. 34390 |
Page Number: | 13 |
First Page: | 1 |
Last Page: | 13 |
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HeBIS-PPN: | 435674242 |
Institutes: | Medizin / Medizin |
Angeschlossene und kooperierende Institutionen / MPI für empirische Ästhetik | |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit |
Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0 |