Re: environmental non-noises

["Bruno L. Giordano" <bruno.giordano@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Ferenc,

I understand you would like to connect to the literature on semantical 
processing in words. However, in the auditory domain you might have a 
much easier time if you focused on the identifiable vs. non-identifiable 
distinction, rather than on the noise vs. not-noise one.

If so, you should read Brian Gygi's work (e.g., JASA, 115 (3), 2004).

Best,
	Bruno


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Honbolygó Ferenc wrote:
> Dear List members,
>
> We are currently working on an experiment about the semantical 
> processing of environmental noises. We are trying to do a similar task 
> as the lexical decision task with words and nonwords, but with 
> environmental noises and "non-noises". The problem is that we have a 
> hard time creating non-noises which are quite environmental noise-like, 
> but are not recognizable. We tried almost every distortion methods used 
> in the literature (reversing, spectrally-rotating, scrambling the parts) 
> but the sounds are always pretty much recognizable by most people.
> Does anyone have any idea on how to create such non-recognizable 
> non-noises based on existing environmental noises? Or is this idea just 
> not feasible, because people will always think that what they heard is 
> something real?
> Thanks,
> Ferenc Honbolygó