Auditory Perceptual Organisation

Traveling pressure waves (ie. sounds) are produced by the movements or actions of objects. So sounds primarily convey information about what is happening in the environment. In addition, some information about the structure of the environment and the surface features of objects can be extracted by determining how the original (self-generated or exogenous) sounds are filtered or distorted by the environment (e.g. the notion of “acoustic daylight,” (Fay 2009)). In this article we consider how the auditory systems processes sound signals to extract information about the environment and the objects within it