Frequency-specific contributions to auditory perceptual priors: Testing the predictive-coding hypothesis.

ABSTRACT: Perceptual priors formed by recent stimuli bias our immediate percept. These priors, expressing our implicit expectations, affect both high- and low-level processing stages. Yet, the nature of the inter-level interaction is unknown. Do priors operate top-down and bias low-level features toward recently experienced objects (predictive-coding hypothesis), or are low-level biases bottom-up driven and formed by local memory circuits? To decipher between these options in auditory perception, we used the "missing fundamental illusion", enabling the dissociation of low-level components from the high-level pitch. Surprisingly, in contrast to predictive coding, when the fundamental frequency was missing, pitch contraction across timbre categories was not found to the previously perceived high-level

SUBMITTER: Lieder I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10850758 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature