Source Repetition Stimuli
Examples
These pages contain example stimuli from
the paper "Recovering Sound Sources From Embedded Repetition" by
McDermott, Wrobleski, and Oxenham (in press, PNAS). Headphones are recommended.
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Figure 1, parts a-h:

Fig.
1a-h. Stimulus generation. (a,b) Time-frequency decomposition of a
spoken word and a bullfrog vocalization. (c,d) Correlation between
nearby time-frequency cells as a function of their temporal (c) and
spectral (d) separation, for spoken words, animal vocalizations, white
noise, and experimental stimuli produced by our generative model.
(e,f) Two example spectrograms generated by
our model. Note that the energy occurs in clumps, as it does in the
natural sound examples of a and b. (g) Spectrogram of the mixture of
the sounds from d and e.
(h) Spectrogram of an example incorrect probe sound, generated to be
physically consistent with the mixture in (g).
Stimuli from Figure 1a-h:
Fig. 1a