Stimulus familiarity affects perceptual restoration in the European starling (Sturnus vulgaris).

BACKGROUND: Humans can easily restore a speech signal that is temporally masked by an interfering sound (e.g., a cough masking parts of a word in a conversation), and listeners have the illusion that the speech continues through the interfering sound. This perceptual restoration for human speech is...

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Main Authors: Folkert Seeba, Georg M Klump
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2696095?pdf=render