Auditory adaptation acts like high-pass filtering that emphasizes stimulus onsets.

Evidence

In the filter bank model of Figure 13.3, the next processing block emulates adaptation with a kind of high-pass filtering that strongly emphasizes the onset of a stationary stimulus. — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 1624

Categorization

• XREF: Onset emphasis links to soundscape work on how the auditory system flags new/changing events over steady states.