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Linearity or separability?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 1998

Bärbel Herrnberger  and
Günter Ehret
Bärbel Herrnberger
Affiliation:
Department of Comparative Neurobiology, University of Ulm, 89069 Ulm, Germanybaerbel.herrnberger@biologie.uni-ulm.deguenter.ehret@biologie.uni-ulm.de cat.biologie.uni-ulm.de/
Günter Ehret
Affiliation:
Department of Comparative Neurobiology, University of Ulm, 89069 Ulm, Germanybaerbel.herrnberger@biologie.uni-ulm.deguenter.ehret@biologie.uni-ulm.de cat.biologie.uni-ulm.de/
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Abstract

Sussman et al. state that auditory systems exploit linear correlations in the sound signal in order to identify perceptual categories. Can the auditory system recognize linearity? In bats and owls, separability of emergent features is an additional constraint that goes beyond linearity and for which linearity is not a necessary prerequisite.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 2 , April 1998 , pp. 269 - 270
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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