@article{ref1,
title="The rhythm of perception: entrainment to acoustic rhythms induces subsequent perceptual oscillation",
journal="Psychological science",
year="2015",
author="Hickok, Gregory and Farahbod, Haleh and Saberi, Kourosh",
volume="26",
number="7",
pages="1006-1013",
abstract="Acoustic rhythms are pervasive in speech, music, and environmental sounds. Recent evidence for neural codes representing periodic information suggests that they may be a neural basis for the ability to detect rhythm. Further, rhythmic information has been found to modulate auditory-system excitability, which provides a potential mechanism for parsing the acoustic stream. Here, we explored the effects of a rhythmic stimulus on subsequent auditory perception. We found that a low-frequency (3 Hz), amplitude-modulated signal induces a subsequent oscillation of the perceptual detectability of a brief nonperiodic acoustic stimulus (1-kHz tone); the frequency but not the phase of the perceptual oscillation matches the entrained stimulus-driven rhythmic oscillation. This provides evidence that rhythmic contexts have a direct influence on subsequent auditory perception of discrete acoustic events. Rhythm coding is likely a fundamental feature of auditory-system design that predates the development of explicit human enjoyment of rhythm in music or poetry.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0956-7976",
doi="10.1177/0956797615576533",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956797615576533"
}