Types of illusory continuity of verbal and nonverbal sounds: Some observations leading to their discoveries
Richard M. Warren · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2006
When gaps of a few hundred ms in a signal (e.g., speech, music, steady-state tones, tone glides) are replaced by a louder sound capable of masking the missing portion, the signal appears intact; the absent fragment can be perceptually synthesized through reallocation of a portion of the louder sound’s auditory representation. General rules and the special rules governing various types of restoration will be discussed, as well as how they were found through a series of observations, inferences, and experiments. [Work supported by NIDCD Grant No. R01 DC000208, and travel expenses provided by the COE Program of Kyushu University.]