Emergence of neural encoding of auditory objects while listening to competing speakers

• Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS Vol. 109; no. 29; pp. 11854 - 11859
• Main Authors: Ding, Nai, Simon, Jonathan Z
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States National Academy of Sciences 17.07.2012; National Acad Sciences
• Subjects: Acoustic Stimulation; Adult; Attention; Auditory cortex; Auditory Cortex - physiology; Auditory Perception - physiology; Behavioral neuroscience; Biological Sciences; cortex; Decryption; Discrimination (Psychology) - physiology; Ears & hearing; Electroencephalography; Female; Hearing - physiology; Humans; Linguistic rhythm; Listening; Listening comprehension; Magnetoencephalography; Male; Mental objects; Models, Theoretical; Neurosciences; Rhythm; Selective attention; Sensors; Sex Factors; Sound; Sound intensity; Speakers; speech; streams

A visual scene is perceived in terms of visual objects. Similar ideas have been proposed for the analogous case of auditory scene analysis, although their hypothesized neural underpinnings have not yet been established. Here, we address this question by recording from subjects selectively listening...