Seminar · Neuroscience
Encoding and perceiving the texture of sounds: auditory midbrain codes for recognizing and categorizing auditory texture and for listening in noise
Monty Escabi · University of Connecticut
Fri, Oct 1, 2021 · 06:00 UTC
Natural soundscapes such as from a forest, a busy restaurant, or a busy intersection are generally composed of a cacophony of sounds that the brain needs to interpret either independently or collectively. In certain instances sounds - such as from moving cars, sirens, and people talking - are perceived in unison and are recognized collectively as single sound (e.g., city noise). In other instances, such as for the cocktail party problem, multiple sounds compete for attention so that the surrounding background noise (e.g., speech babble) interferes with the perception of a single sound source (