Perceptual attributes map onto multiple interacting physical sound properties

Evidence

Each attribute of an auditory event depends typically on many properties of the sound event. For example, the loudness of an event depends not only on the sound pressure level of the sound event, but also on, for example, the frequency content and the temporal duration of sound. Often, one of the physical properties of a sound event is dominant, like the fundamental frequency of a tone complex that mostly defines the pitch. — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 858

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• DEFINE: Clarifies that one auditory attribute is not a single physical parameter but a web of them, with one often dominant.

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