Acoustic increments are more salient than decrements in complex stimuli

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• Appearance of new spectral content is more salient than its removal in complex sound (similarity 0.83)
• Humans integrate stimulus statistics to detect statistical changes in complex sounds (similarity 0.81)
• A 1 dB detection gain can shift speech identification by 15 to 20 points (similarity 0.81)
• A pianoforte with raised dampers can physically re-echo sung vowels via sympathetic resonance (similarity 0.80)
• Low-frequency tones become relatively louder as level increases. (similarity 0.80)
• Auditory sensitivity varies nonuniformly across the frequency range (similarity 0.79)
• The auditory cortex decodes speech from acoustically jumbled waveforms. (similarity 0.79)
• Speech comprehension depends on direct sound, which falls off with the inverse square law. (similarity 0.79)
• Faster reaction times track louder sounds only at moderate to high levels (similarity 0.79)
• Two kinds of sound change activate different processing features in hearing (similarity 0.79)
• Adding sounds is perceptually more salient than removing them in complex stimuli (similarity 0.78)
• Inserting a temporal gap can change a sound’s spectrum, confounding gap measures (similarity 0.78)
• No keyboard tuning can make every key sound justly intonated (similarity 0.78)
• Severe audio degradation flips the measured variable from annoyance to word accuracy (similarity 0.78)