Auditory search asymmetry between normal Japanese speech sounds and time-reversed speech sounds distributed on the frontal-horizontal plane

Acoustical Science and Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 145-147

  Asemi, Noriaki ^a   Sugita, Yoichi ^b   Suzuki, Yôiti ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Neuroscience Research Institute   (Japan)

Author keywords

Auditory search; Pop out; Search asymmetry; Time reversed speech

Indexed keywords

LOUDSPEAKERS; SPEECH TRANSMISSION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

SPEECH SOUNDS;

ACOUSTIC WAVES;

EID: 0038380985     PISSN: 13463969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1250/ast.24.145     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. A. Treisman and J. Souther, "Search asymmetry: A diagnostic for preattentive processing of separable feature," J. Exp. Psychol., 114, 285-310 (1985).
2. A. Treisman and S. Gormican, "Feature analysis in early vision: evidence from search asymmetry," Psychol. Rev., 95, 15-48 (1988).
3. J. M. Wolfe, "Asymmetries in visual search: An Introduction," Percept. Psychophys., 63, 381-389 (2001).
4. R. Cusack and R. P. Carlyon, "Auditory pop-out: Perceptual asymmetries in sequences of sounds," Br. J. Audiol., 34, 112 (2000).
5. Y. Sugita, Y. Suzuki and T. Sone, "Auditory search asymmetry," Proc. 20th Ann. Int. Conf. -IEEE/EMUS, Hong Kong, pp. 3126-3128 (1998).
6. N. Asemi, Y. Sugita and Y. Suzuki, "Auditory search asymmetry between pure tone and temporal fluctuating sounds distributed on the frontal-horizontal plane," Acustica - Acta Acustica (in press, 2003).
7. T. Kobayashi, S. Itabashi, S. Hayamizu and T. Takezawa, "ASJ continuous speech corpus for research," J. Acoust, Soc. Jpn. (J), 48, 888-893 (1992).
8. A. T. Welford, Fundamentals of Skill (Methuen, London, 1968), p. 33.
9. N. A. Macmillan and C. D. Creelman, Detection Theory: A User's Guide (Cambridge University press, Cambridge, 1991).
10. L. Boutsen and C. Marendaz, "Detection of shape orientation depends on salient axes of symmetry and elongation: Evidence from visual search," Percept. Psychophys., 63, 404-422 (2001).
11. M. Kashino and T. Hirahara, "One, two, many -judging the number of concurrent talkers," J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 99, 2596 (1996).