Prior context in audition informs binding and shapes simple features

Perception can be swayed by prior context. Here the authors report an auditory illusion in which sounds with ambiguous pitch shifts are perceived as shifting upward or downward based on the preceding contextual sounds, explore the neural correlates, and propose a probabilistic model based on tempora...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Claire Chambers, Sahar Akram, Vincent Adam, Claire Pelofi, Maneesh Sahani, Shihab Shamma, Daniel Pressnitzer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-04-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15027