Abstract: Publisher Summary The primary recognition process represents a synthesis of the preperceptual representation of these speech sounds. This chapter focuses on the temporal course of the primary recognition or synthesis process. It presents a schematic representation of the primary recognition process in the framework of an information-processing model. This representation of the recognition process rests on certain assumptions about the structure and function of the human information-processing system: (1) the preperceptual auditory image holds information about the stimulus and this information remain there until primary recognition has occurred, and (2) a description of this stimulus information is available in long-term memory so that recognition can occur. The primary recognition process finds the best match between the preperceptual image and the description in long-term memory. Recognition of the stimulus involves a transformation of the information in the preperceptual auditory image, resulting in a synthesized percept of the stimulus. The stimulus for recognizing speech is a sound pattern that can be described by fluctuations in sound pressure over time.

Abstract: Wedin L. A multidimensional study of perceptual-emotional qualities in music. Scand. J. Psychol., 1972, 13, 241–257.—Forty musical excerpts were judged in terms of emotionally coloured adjectives using a check-list procedure and different types of sorting procedures. Similarities were estimated by rank correlation or simple confusion indices and nonmetric multidimensional scaling was applied. Three dimensions were txtracted and labelled Intensity-Softness, Pleasantness-Unpleasantness and Solemnity-Triviality. These qualities were then related to the stimulus qualities judged in more “technical” terms like tempo, pitch, modality etc.

Abstract: The consonants /b, d, g, k, m, n, p, t/ were presented to normal-hearing, severely hearing-impaired, and profoundly deaf children through auditory, visual, and combined auditory-visual modalities. ...

Abstract: Auditory and visual presentation of verbal material were compared in a single patient having an auditory verbal S.T.M. deficit. A Peterson short-term forgetting experiment and an immediate memory s...

Abstract: PRESENTS THE FINDINGS of a comparison of the reading progress, through third grade, of pupils identified as having high visualhigh auditory, high visual-low auditory, low visual-high auditory, and low visual-low auditory abilities when they entered first grade. Subjects were identified among 232 in 12 classrooms from two school systems using a sight approach to reading and 216 in 10 classrooms from two school systems using the HayWingo approach. Subjects with both visual and auditory modalities high scored highest on tests of reading at the end of first and third grades; those with both modalities low scored lowest; those with one strong and one weak modality scored between the two extremes. Neither method for teaching reading surpassed the other among pupils with strong or weak modalities. Regardless of method, auditory discrimination made a significant contribution to all reading while visual perception did not.

Abstract: Effects of body position on auditory threshold acuity, the acoustic impedance at the tympanic membrane, and the middle ear muscle reflexes were investigated at 150, 250, and 500 Hz. Relative to the...

Abstract: Acoustic clicks at 9.6/sec were presented monaurally at nine sensation levels (SL) from −10 to 70 dB to 24 normal-hearing young adults. Each subject participated in two experimental sessions in whi...

Abstract: (1972). The Relative Efficacy of Visual and Auditory Feedback for Self-Control of Heart Rate. The Journal of General Psychology: Vol. 87, No. 2, pp. 195-202.

Abstract: This study examined the relationship between language comprehension and auditory discrimination in 30 kindergarten children with numerous Disarticulations and 30 similarly aged children with profic...

Abstract: The auditory comprehension of English by 30 monolingual and 30 bilingual children, ages three years, 10 months, to five years, nine months, from low socioeconomic areas in Houston, Texas, was compa

Abstract: Fifty-seven skilled performers and 31 control subjects were measured for auditory and visual perception of rhythm plus motor response to both auditory and visual rhythms. Greater variation was found in visual perception than auditory, and dancers and athletes did not appear to have any greater ability to perceive either type of rhythm than a control group. However, skilled dancers, swimmers, tennis players, and the combined group of skilled athletes performed significantly better than the control subjects in tests of motor response to both types of rhythms. Dancers also showed better response to auditory rhythms than the basketball players, who did not differ from the control group in any of the performance measures. For all groups motor response proved to be either quite accurate or highly inaccurate. There was no evidence that experience in either music or dance had any relationship to rhythmic perception or rhythmic performance.

Abstract: It is often claimed that consciousness is immeasurable because it has no attributes such as mass, extension, charge, etc., which can be quantified in physical units. For this reason some philosophers have referred to it, pejoratively, as “the ghost in the machine”.