From language and concepts to acoustics: How do people cognitively process soundscapes?

Institute of Noise Control Engineering of the USA - 35th International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering, INTER-NOISE 2006

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages 3579-3585

  Guastavino, Catherine ^a   Dubois, Daniele ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; CATEGORICAL STRUCTURE; COGNITIVE PROCESS; FIELD SURVEYS; SEMANTIC FEATURES; SOUND QUALITY; SOUND QUALITY EVALUATION; SOUNDSCAPES; UNDERLYING PRINCIPLES;

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES CONTROL; ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTICS; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; EXHIBITIONS; LINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

EID: 84867946350     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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