Workshop on the Auditory Basis of Speech Perception Keele University, UK July 15-19, 1996

Are Neural Oscillations the Substrate of Auditory Grouping?

Guy J. Brown (1), Martin Cooke (1), Eric Mousset (1,2)

(1) Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
(2) INGENIA, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France

How are acoustic features that are extracted in remote regions of the auditory system bound together to form a perceptual whole? We consider the evidence for a solution to this so-called binding problem, which proposes that the responses of feature detecting cells are bound together by the synchronisation of oscillatory firing activity. Four models of auditory grouping based on neural oscillators are reviewed, and issues arising from these models are discussed.

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Bibliographic reference.  Brown, Guy J. / Cooke, Martin / Mousset, Eric (1996): "Are neural oscillations the substrate of auditory grouping?", In ABSP-1996, 174-179.