Auditory scene analysis : the perceptual organization of sound

This text addresses the problem of hearing complex auditory environments, using a series of creative analogies to describe the process required of the human auditory system as it analyzes mixtures of sounds to recover descriptions of individual sounds.

In a unified and comprehensive way, Bregman establishes a theoretical framework that integrates his findings with a wide range of previous research in psychoacoustics, speech perception, music theory and composition, and computer modelling.