When is the sound of a shotgun blast not just a shotgun blast? When it is paired with 14 other sounds, including a roaring lion and an object being sucked through a tube. Sound and sound effects in ...
A study finds that sound textures are stored in auditory memory as summary statistics representing the sound over long time scales; specific events are superimposed, forming a 'skeleton of events on a ...
The sounds that enter our ears are transduced with a temporal resolution that is notably fine-grained. Listeners can detect gaps in continuous sounds that are as short as a few milliseconds 1 and can ...