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auditory scene analysis  

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  • When we listen, we effortlessly hear the separate sounds of our environment—voices, musical instruments, cars—each coming from its appropriate direction and having its own characteristic qualities such as pitch and timbre. This simple perceptual experience is the result of the complex brain mechanisms of auditory scene analysis (ASA), described in this entry. [Source: Encyclopedia of Perception; Auditory Scene Analysis]

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