An auditory cortical theory of primitive auditory grouping

Abstract

Auditory stream segregation is considered from the point of view of a theory of the central auditory system in which temporal information is spatially coded on three dimensions roughly corresponding to the level of the cochlea, the inferior colliculus and the auditory cortex, respectively. This theory is embodied in the form of a computational model which simulates peripheral and central processing including a cortical cross-channel correlation mechanism.* This paper was presented at the Workshop on Information Theory and the Brain, held at the University of Stirling, UK, on 4–5 September 1995