Interaction between Attention and Bottom-Up Saliency Mediates the Representation of Foreground and Background in an Auditory Scene

• Mounya Elhilali ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mounya Elhilali, Juanjuan Xiang

  Affiliation Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Juanjuan Xiang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mounya Elhilali, Juanjuan Xiang

  Affiliation Starkey Laboratories, Eden Prairie, Minnesota, United States of America

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• Shihab A. Shamma,

  Affiliations Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America, Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

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• Jonathan Z. Simon

  * E-mail: jzsimon@umd.edu

  Affiliations Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

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