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Nature Neuroscience 2, 863–865 (1 October 1999) | doi:10.1038/13161

A contingent aftereffect in the auditory system

C.-J. Dong , N. V. Swindale & M. S. Cynader

Pairs of stimulus attributes, such as color and orientation, that are normally uncorrelated in the real world are generally perceived independently; that is, the perception of color is usually uninfluenced by orientation and vice versa. Yet this independence can be altered by relatively brief exposure to artificially correlated stimuli, as has been shown for vision.