Auditory Sequence Discrimination in Japanese Monkeys: Effect of Frequency Proximity on Perceiving Auditory Stream

A. Izumi
pp. 17-23.

Abstract

Bregman and Rudnicky (1975) conducted an experiment of auditory sequence discrimination, and showed the effect of frequency proximity on the stream segregation in humans. In the present study, similar task was applied to Japanese monkeys to test whether stream segregation is observed in monkeys. The performance of one of the two monkey subjects was qualitatively similar to that in humans, and was consistent with the idea that the monkey segregated sound according to frequency proximity.

Key words: auditory stream segregation, Japanese monkeys