Psychophysics of Complex Sounds and Speech

摘要一系列实验旨在弥合关于简单声刺激知觉的理论和经验上的差距，以及关于复杂的结构化语音和音乐刺激知觉的知识。这项研究的一个主要目标是确定可能支配对所有复杂声音刺激的感知的原则。第二个目标是开发几个新的程序，以便能够直接评估具体的处理能力和战略。在拟议的研究中使用这些程序将验证先前研究的结论，或者将提供对特定潜在过程的确切性质的更好理解。研究的第三个相关目标是评估一般声学知觉原则在言语和音乐知觉中所起的作用；确定一般和特定的加工模式(1)共同的加工原则或(2)加工原则中差异的确切性质。

ABSTRACT A series of experiments aims to close the theoretical and empirical gap between knowledge about the perception of simple acoustic stimuli and knowledge about the perception of complex, structured speech and music stimuli. One major goal of the research is to identify the principles which may govern the perception of all complex acoustic stimuli. A second goal is to develop several new procedures which will allow for a direct evaluation of specific processing abilities and strategies. Use of these procedures in the proposed research will either validate conclusions from previous research, or will provide a better understanding of the exact nature of specific underlying processes. The third, related goal of the research is to evaluate the role played by general acoustic perceptual principles in the perception of speech and music; identifying for general and specific modes of processing either (1) common processing principles or (2) the exact nature of differences in processing principles.