Auditory neuroscience: filling in the gaps.
Our sensory systems fill in information obscured by other, competing signals to maintain a stable representation of the world. A correlate of the continuity illusion, in which sounds are perceived to continue despite being interrupted by other sounds, has now been found in the auditory cortex.
King
Andrew J
AJ
Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PT, UK. andrew.king@dpag.ox.ac.uk
D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D001303:Auditory Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D001307:Auditory Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007088:Illusions / Q000502:physiology*