To make sense of the intricate, noisy, and often incomplete soundscape of our dynamic world, human listeners continuously use contextual information to form predictions about future states while also adapting to past sensations. While extensive research supports the relevance of both prediction and trial-level adaptation to aid effective neural processing of sounds, differentiating between the...
Series of discrete highly regular sensorimotor events are often experienced as temporal patterns. Studies on rhythm perception, sensorimotor learning and predictive coding in the auditory domain have shown that humans learn, are highly sensitive to and form expectations about the temporal regularities of the environment. A complete understanding of the basic mechanism supporting these...
Prior research demonstrates that the ‘perceptual weight’ of acoustic input in signaling speech categories shifts rapidly when statistical distributions of speech input deviate from expectations, as when you encounter a foreign accent. What drives this perceptual adaptation is debated. One possibility is that accented or otherwise distorted speech carries enough information to partially...
Our eyes move about three times per second which divides apparently continuous vision into rather discrete snapshots. These spatiotemporal dynamics implied in active vision bring about statistical regularities which impact on perceptual processing. An example are preview effects, which demonstrate that extrafoveal pre-saccadic information contributes to post-saccadic foveal processing. Preview...