title: Understanding continuity effects with complex stimuli.
abstract: When a low-intensity stimulus A is alternated in time with a high-intensity stimulus B of relatively short duration, stimulus A is heard as continuous. This "continuity" effect is shown to occur even when the B stimulus is a series of sharp pulses at one rate and the A stimulus is a series of pulses at another rate which must produce a very different neural temporal pattern. Simple substitution models of the continuity effect are thus shown to be inadequate. A model is presented to make various types of continuity effects more understandable.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D006801:Humans; D008144:Loudness Perception; D010897:Pitch Discrimination; D013998:Time Perception