Journal article
Illusory sound perception in macaque monkeys
The Journal of neuroscience, Vol.23(27), pp.9155-9161
10/08/2003
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.23-27-09155.2003
PMCID: PMC6740835
PMID: 14534249
Abstract
In most natural listening environments, noise occludes objects of interest, and it would be beneficial for an organism to correctly identify those objects. When a sound of interest ("foreground" sound) is interrupted by a loud noise, subjects perceive the entire sound, even if the noise was intense enough to completely mask a part of it. This phenomenon can be exploited to create an illusion: when a silent gap is introduced into the foreground and high-intensity noise is superimposed into the gap, subjects report the foreground as continuing through the noise although that portion of the foreground was deleted. This phenomenon, referred to as auditory induction or amodal completion, is conceptually similar to visual induction, fill-in, illusory motion, and illusory contours. Two rhesus macaque monkeys performed a task designed to assess auditory induction. They were trained to discriminate complete stimuli from those containing a silent gap in the presence of two types of noise. Interrupting noise temporally coincided only with the gap, and in humans this causes induction. Surrounding noise temporally encompassed the entire foreground, and in humans this causes masking without auditory induction. Consistent with previous human psychophysical results, macaques showed better performance with surrounding masking noise than interrupting noise designed to elicit induction. These and other control experiments provide evidence that primates may share a general mechanism to perceptually complete missing sounds.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Illusory sound perception in macaque monkeys
- Creators
- Christopher I Petkov - University of California, DavisKevin N O'Connor - University of California, DavisMitchell L Sutter - University of California, Davis
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- The Journal of neuroscience, Vol.23(27), pp.9155-9161
- DOI
- 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.23-27-09155.2003
- PMID
- 14534249
- PMCID
- PMC6740835
- ISSN
- 0270-6474
- eISSN
- 1529-2401
- Grant note
- F31 DC5516 / NIDCD NIH HHS DC02514 / NIDCD NIH HHS
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 10/08/2003
- Academic Unit
- Iowa Neuroscience Institute; Neurosurgery; Otolaryngology
- Record Identifier
- 9984360006802771
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