Added sound components are more detectable than removed ones in complex textures

Evidence

The change consisted in an increment of the marginal distribution in the selected frequency bins at a random point in time (referred to as change time ) during stimulus presentation. We chose to use an increment of the marginal distribution in two adjacent frequency bins on the basis that an appearance is more salient than its opposite in a complex acoustic stimulus (Constantino et al. 2012 ). — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 3303

Categorization

• XREF: Relates to the general principle that onsets and additions capture attention more than removals, paralleling visual change blindness literature where additions are also more salient.