Acoustic textures can be modeled as tone clouds predictable only through their statistical properties

Evidence

We used a simplified sound texture model, which retained the property of being predictable only from the statistical properties of its complex spectrotemporal structure (Fig. 1a ). The texture was a tone cloud consisting of a sequence of 30-ms, temporally overlapping pure tones whose frequency covered a range of 2.2 octaves (400–1840 Hz) divided in 8 frequency bins. — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 3291

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines what an ‘acoustic texture’ means operationally: a tone cloud whose predictability derives only from statistical properties of its spectrotemporal structure.