The Dynamics of Auditory Streaming: Psychophysics, Neuroimaging, and Modeling

Abstract

Physiological studies of temporal pitch processing suggest that the processing of temporal regularity begins in the brainstem (e.g., Palmer and Winter 1992), which suggests that there is a hierarchy of temporal pitch processing in the auditory pathway as would be expected from computational models of auditory perception (e.g., Patterson et al. 1995; Pressnitzer et al. 2001). This chapter reports a series of brain imaging studies designed to search for evidence of the hierarchy.