The continuity illusion works even with complex signals like music

Evidence

This demonstration is similar to the previous one, but with music as the gated signal. Even with such a rather complex signal the effect of the pulsation threshold gives the impression of a continuous sound even if in reality it is gated. You will hear about 5 seconds of music played normally, then about 8 seconds of gated music with pauses of 100 ms. In the last 8 seconds the gaps in the music are filled by noise, and the (gated) music again sounds continuous. — Professor Dr.-Ing. Hugo Fastl, Professor Dr.-Ing. Eberhard, Psychoacoustics- Facts and Models, 3270

Categorization

• XREF: Same gap-filling mechanism as phonemic restoration; broadens the continuity illusion from simple tones to complex real-world signals.