An auditory illusion reveals the role of streaming in the temporal misallocation of perceptual objects.

ABSTRACT: This study investigates the neural correlates and processes underlying the ambiguous percept produced by a stimulus similar to Deutsch's 'octave illusion', in which each ear is presented with a sequence of alternating pure tones of low and high frequencies. The same sequence is presented to each ear, but in opposite phase, such that the left and right ears receive a high-low-high … and a low-high-low … pattern, respectively. Listeners generally report hearing the illusion of an alternating pattern of low and high tones, with all the low tones lateralized to one side and all the high tones lateralized to the other side. The current explanation of the illusion is that it reflects an illusory feature conjunction of pitch and perceived location. Using psychophysics and electroencephalogram mea

SUBMITTER: Mehta AH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5206281 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature