The detection of a silent interval or gap provides important insight into temporal processing by the auditory system. Previous research has uncovered a multitude of empirical findings leaving the mechanism of gap detection poorly understood and key issues unresolved. Here, we expand the findings by measuring psychometric functions for a number of conditions including both across-frequency and across-intensity gap detection as a first study of its kind. A model is presented which not only accounts for our findings in a quantitative manner, but also helps frame the body of work on auditory gap research. The model is based on the peripheral response and postulates that the identification of gap requires the detection of activity associated with silence.

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听觉间隙检测：心理功能和对潜在神经活动的洞察力。

沉默间隔或间隔的检测为听觉系统的时间处理提供了重要的见识。先前的研究发现了许多经验发现，这使得对间隙检测的机制了解甚少，关键问题尚未解决。在这里，我们通过对许多情况下的心理测量功能进行测量来扩展发现，包括跨频和跨强度间隙检测，这是此类研究的首次研究。提出了一个模型，该模型不仅可以定量地解释我们的发现，而且可以帮助构建听觉差距研究的工作体系。该模型基于外围反应，并假设识别间隙需要检测与沉默相关的活动。