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| 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. |