Term II: Uniformly exciting

[Bill Woods <wsw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Colleagues,

Well, the 6-hour time difference has made for quite a significant early
response from the English-as-native-language European contingent of
the list.  I've received already 3 responses from folks in England
(and one from an early bird in Indiana).  I've attached them below.

In summary, the term seems to be a direct translation of the German
that my colleague here originally used in asking me, "gleichmaessig
anregendes Rauschen", or "uniformly exciting noise", and seems
traceable to some work by Zwicker and colleagues.

Two other related points seem noteworthy.  Uniformly exciting noise is
similar to pink noise, but the relatively constant auditory filter
bandwidth at lower center frequencies makes them not exactly
equivalent in the strictest lexicons (something I should have pointed
out in my first message).  Also, Brian Moore pointed out that one
should be careful in where they define the filter input to be, and
note the effect of the outer and middle ear transfer characteristics.

Thanks for the help.

-Bill Woods

> From strick@sage.cc.purdue.edu Thu Apr 11 15:00:23 1996
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> We call it pink noise.  It's not quite on a Bark scale though.
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> From bob.carlyon@mrc-apu.cam.ac.uk Thu Apr 11 15:13:16 1996
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> Bill,
> Zwicker calls it a "uniformly exciting noise". I was a reviewer on an
> article by Schmidt and Zwicker about 5 years ago in which they used that
> term (not for the first time), and I think I managed to persuade them to
> give details of its frequency spectrum
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> bob
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> From bcjm@cus.cam.ac.uk Thu Apr 11 15:26:34 1996
> Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 14:25:08 +0100 (BST)
> From: "B.C.J. Moore" <bcjm@cus.cam.ac.uk>
> To: Bill Woods <wsw@medi.physik.uni-oldenburg.de>
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> Dear Bill,
>
> It's usually called "uniformly exciting noise" although that term is not
> accurate, as the noise is not uniformly exciting after it passes through
> the outer/middle ear.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Brian
>
> Brian C.J. Moore, Ph.D
> Professor of Auditory Perception,
> Dept. of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge,
> Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EB, England
> Tel. (+) 44 1223 333574       FAX: (+) 44 1223 333564
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