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Volume 4 Issue 8, August 2001

Miller and colleagues report that cottontop tamarin monkeys experience an auditory illusion also found in humans, suggesting that there are homologous auditory perceptual processes in monkey and man. Tamarins, native to the Columbian rainforest, can infer the presence of vocal calls that are partly obscured by a noise mask, indicative of perceptual processes that complete fragments of sounds when evidence suggests they are part of the same acoustic event. See page 783.

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