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Understanding continuity effects with complex stimuli
1Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison 53706.
Abstract:
When a low-intensity stimulus A is alternated in time with a high-intensity stimulus B of relatively short duration, stimulus A is heard as continuous. This "continuity" effect is shown to occur even when the B stimulus is a series of sharp pulses at one rate and the A stimulus is a series of pulses at another rate which must produce a very different neural temporal pattern. Simple substitution models of the continuity effect are thus shown to be inadequate. A model is presented to make various types of continuity effects more understandable.
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