Adding sounds is perceptually more salient than removing them in complex stimuli

Evidence

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…, 3291

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the IMMODESTY article’s theme of asymmetry in perception of presence vs absence, and generally to gain-versus-loss salience asymmetries in perception.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 3291