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| McAdams, S. (1993). Recognition of sound sources and events. In S. McAdams & E. Bigand (Eds.), Thinking in Sound: The Cognitive Psychology of Human Audition. (pp. 146–198). Oxford: Clarendon Press. |
  
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| Added by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard 21/09/2005, 14:45 | |
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As related to perception and cognition, McAdams describes the information processing psychological approach to sound in which an auditory event is passed through a multi-stage process and contrasts this to the ecological psychology approach (cf. Gibson) in which an auditory event is perceived directly without intermediate processing because the perceptual system is developed to perceive directly aspects of the environment that are of significance, whether biologically significant or significant on the basis of learned experience (Gibson 1966). McAdams takes the former approach in this chapter. |
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| Recognition of auditory events appears to rely on the accumulation of invariant physical attributes of the event upon repeated exposure. | |
| Schubert, E. D. (1975). The role of auditory perception in language processing. In D. D. Duane & M. B. Rawson (Eds.), Reading, Perception and Language: Papers from the World Congress on Dyslexia. (pp. 97–130). Baltimore: York Press. |
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| Added by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard Last edited by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard 26/04/2013, 09:57 | |
| "The most general purpose of the auditory system is to serve as a perceptual system, i.e., as a device for contributing to the usefulness of acoustical information from the environment." | |
| A suggestion "that rapidly changing intensity patterms may be the most important information-bearing elements in audition." | |
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Agreeing with and quoting Bruner (1957) that "perception is categorization". |
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As evidence for the auditory system working in conjunction with other systems, Schubert enumerates some experiments in which listeners had great difficulty in memorising abstract sounds. The inference is that being able to imagine or, better, see the sound source is a great aid to sound memorisation. "...possibly even more than any other sensory input, the auditory system functions mostly as part of a larger perceptual system comprising also the visual, haptic and proprioceptive inputs." (p.104). |
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Some of the author's summary includes the following thoughts on the auditory system as perceptual system: "Identification of sound sources, and behavior of those sources, is the primary task of the system." What he terms Source Identification Theory. "The system is highly dependent on the visual system for meaningful identification of environmental acoustic sequences other than speech or music." |
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| States that the auditory system makes great use of memory when analysing complex audio events and that it is more or less useless [for sighted persons] without other systems such as sight. | |
| Warren, W. H., & Verbrugge, R. R. (1984). Auditory perception of breaking and bouncing events: A case study in ecological acoustics. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 10(5), 704–712. |
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| Added by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard 26/04/2013, 09:53 | |
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Reviewing previous work in the field: "These results support the general claim that sound in isolation permits accurate identification of classes of sound-producing events when the temporal structure of the sound is specific to the mechanical activity of the source (Gibson, 1966; Schubert, 1974)."* * |
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Quoting Schubert*: "Schubert (1974) put this succinctly in his source identification principle for auditory perception: "Identification of sound sources, and the behavior of those sources, is the primary task of the [auditory] system" (p.126)." * (Schubert 1975) |