Matt hears the clicking noise of buttons in a cylinder and the whirring of a fan at the same time.He groups these sounds together into the dryer sound.By doing this, Matt is using ______.
A)acoustic discrimination
B)temporal segregation
C)cochlear scene analysis
D)cochlear discrimination

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Matt is grouping the two separate sounds into one auditory stream based on their temporal segregation, which is the ability to separate different sounds based on the timing and patterns of their acoustic signals. The other options, acoustic discrimination and cochlear discrimination, refer to the ability to distinguish between different sounds based on their physical properties, while cochlear scene analysis is a theoretical concept that involves the brain's ability to parse complex sounds into individual auditory objects.

Matt Hears the Clicking Noise of Buttons in a Cylinder