acoustics

Acoustic correlates of auditory object and event perception: Speakers, musical timbres and environmental sounds

Human listeners must identify and orient themselves to auditory objects and events in their environment. What acoustic features support a listener’s ability to differentiate the great variety of natural sounds they might encounter? Studies of …

The time course of sound category identification: Insights from acoustic features

Humans have an impressive, automatic capacity for identifying and organizing sounds in their environment. However, little is known about the timescales that sound identification functions on, or the acoustic features that listeners use to identify …