ABSTRACT
This part conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters. The part is concerned with issues arising as a result of the inconvenient fact that our ears are rarely presented with the sound of a single speaker in isolation, but more often with a combination of several speech and nonspeech sounds that may also have been further altered by the acoustic environment. It demonstrates the very wide range of functions involved in auditory organization. Block diagram of a possible structure for auditory organization, as typically assumed by modelers. The abstract processing indicated by high-level perceptual phenomena demonstrates that relatively simple models of low-level effects can never provide a complete account of auditory perception. The complement of the auditory system's ability to separate sources is its ability to degrade gracefully in demanding situations, manifested as a preconscious inference of hidden features.
