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At what level is the gap transfer illusion illusory?
Yoshitaka Nakajima1, Gerard Bastiaan Remijn1
1Kyushu University, Japan.
Abstract:
The gap transfer illusion is an auditory phenomenon in which a temporal gap in a longer glide transfers perceptually to a crossing shorter glide, making the longer glide illusorily continuous. This continuity is often considered a variation of classic illusory auditory continuity attributed to auditory peripheral activity, but a new view is given here supported by a series of sound demonstrations indicating that this illusory continuity is purely caused by a higher mechanism of perceptual organization.
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