Neural realignment of spatially separated sound components.
J Acoust Soc Am
; 137(6): 3356-65, 2015 Jun.
Article
em En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-26093425
ABSTRACT
Natural auditory scenes often consist of several sound sources overlapping in time, but separated in space. Yet, location is not fully exploited in auditory grouping spatially separated sounds can get perceptually fused into a single auditory object and this leads to difficulties in the identification and localization of concurrent sounds. Here, the brain mechanisms responsible for grouping across spatial locations were explored in magnetoencephalography (MEG) recordings. The results show that the cortical representation of a vowel spatially separated into two locations reflects the perceived location of the speech sound rather than the physical locations of the individual components. In other words, the auditory scene is neurally rearranged to bring components into spatial alignment when they were deemed to belong to the same object. This renders the original spatial information unavailable at the level of the auditory cortex and may contribute to difficulties in concurrent sound segregation.
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Assunto principal:
Córtex Auditivo
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Vias Auditivas
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Localização de Som
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Acústica da Fala
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Percepção da Fala
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Qualidade da Voz
Limite:
Humans
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Male
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2015
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Article