Natural sounds like wind and rain are recognized through their statistical patterns

Evidence

Many natural sounds have spectrotemporal signatures only on a statistical level, e.g. wind, fire or rain. While their local structure is highly variable, the spectrotemporal statistics of these auditory textures can be used for recognition. This suggests the existence of a neural representation of these statistics. — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 3280

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to soundscape ecology work on keynotes and ambient sound, and to the deep-listening idea that textures are heard in aggregate. — connects to: Wind and rustling leaves are a major obstacle to recording biophonies — Almo Farina, Soundscape Ecology: Principles,…, 292