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Dichotic chimeras are synthesized from pairs of dichotic sounds by independently processing the signals in each ear through a monaural chimerizer. Here, the two input signals are (1) an utterance with a 700-ms interaural time difference (ITD) pointing to the right, and (2) an excerpt from "Take Five" by David Brubeck with a 700-ms ITD pointing to the left. Chimeras synthesized with at least 8 bands are heard on the side which the fine structure points to, even though what is heard (speech vs. music) is based on the envelope. Chimeras synthesized with fewer than 4-8 bands are hard to lateralize.
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