Judging the similarity of soundscapes does not require categorization: Evidence from spliced stimuli

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 2155-2161

  Aucouturier, Jean Julien ^a   Defreville, Boris ^b  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ORELIA   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; PHYSICS;

AUDIO SIGNAL; HUMAN LISTENERS; HUMAN PERFORMANCE; NATURAL CATEGORIES; SIMILARITY RELATIONS; SOUND SOURCE; SOUNDSCAPES;

AUDIO RECORDINGS;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND INTENSITY; SOUND TRANSMISSION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 64649099283     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3083232     Document Type: Article

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