Prevailing nineteenth-century views treated the ear as receiving motion souvenirs from sound sources

Evidence

This section concerns sounds that in some sense could be said to “deceive” the ear. Such sounds have a psychoacoustic realization that is not what might be expected from knowledge of their acoustic components. In other words, the subjective and objective realizations of sounds cannot be always directly matched up. While some of the examples given may be of no obvious musical use to the performer or composer, they may in the future find musical application in electronically produced music for particular musical effects where control over the acoustic components of the output sound is exact. — David M. Howard, Jamie Angus, Acoustics and Psychoacoustics, 1568 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: What the ear perceives can diverge from sound’s physical components. — David M. Howard, Jamie Angus, Acoustics and Psychoacoustics, 1568

Related

• What the ear perceives can diverge from sound’s physical components. (similarity 0.89)
• Groupings of strong adjacent partials constitute what the ear hears as formants (similarity 0.89)
• Subjective perception of sound cannot be predicted simply from its acoustic components (similarity 0.87)
• Sound denotes both a physical wave and the subjective percept it evokes (similarity 0.86)
• The ear can perceive ILDs even where they never occur naturally. (similarity 0.84)
• The ear does not receive copies of the source’s physical motion. (similarity 0.83)
• Humans perceive extended sound sources poorly when their parts emit identical tones (similarity 0.82)
• Physicists have sometimes imposed favorite theories onto the ear (similarity 0.81)
• Difference noise generated by ear nonlinearities can be heard before the test tone itself (similarity 0.80)
• Acoustic illusions reveal perception mechanisms and shape music performance (similarity 0.80)
• Only trained, prompted ears can parse sound into individual partials (similarity 0.79)
• The ear and brain adapt to sounds, dulling perceived changes over time. (similarity 0.79)
• Psychoacoustic findings are experimentally established yet often lack anatomical or physical explanation. (similarity 0.79)
• Auditory perception depends on understanding ear capabilities and hearing loss effects (similarity 0.79)
• Acoustics remains an open field with room for new discoveries (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• What the ear perceives can diverge from sound’s physical components. #expands (0.80) — David M. Howard, Jamie Angus, Acoustics and Psychoacoustics, 1568