Summary statistics in auditory perception

Humans use summary statistics to perceive auditory sequences.

In vision, humans use summary statistics (e.g., the average facial expression of a crowd) to efficiently perceive the gist of groups of features. Here, we present direct evidence that ensemble coding is also important for auditory processing. We found that listeners could accurately estimate the mean frequency of a set of logarithmically spaced pure tones presented in a temporal sequence (Exper...

Ensemble Perception, Summary Statistics, and Perceptual Awareness: A Response.

The extent to which perception is rich or sparse is a foundational issue in consciousness studies. According to those who claim that perception is rich, observers are aware of more information than they can attend to or remember [1]. Meanwhile, those who believe perception is sparse directly link awareness to the finite capacities of attention and working memory [2–4]. However, this view is oft...

Summary statistics in vision

Auditory monitoring in ototoxicity Summary

Bias in Auditory Perception

Our brain accomplishes the remarkable feat of processing a continuous stream of incoming sensory information at an astonishing speed. This is possible through simultaneous bottom-up processing of the incoming stimuli and top-down processing of prior knowledge (Kinchla & Wolfe, 1979). Categorization facilitates recognition and also anticipation of the incoming stimuli (also known as predictive c...