ARE NEURAL OSCILLATIONS THE SUBSTRATE OF AUDITORY GROUPING

How are acoustic features that are extracted in remote regions of the auditory system bound together to form a perceptual whole? We consider the evidence for a solution to this so-called binding problem, which proposes that the responses of feature detecting cells are bound together by the synchronisation of oscillatory firing activity. Four models of auditory grouping based on neural oscillators are reviewed, and issues arising from these models are discussed.

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