How much is needed for sound identification ?

[Sylvain Clément <sylvain.clement@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear List members,

We are currently running several experiments on environmental sounds 
identification vs image identification.

The literature in hearing seems to be quite poor whereas a lot of work 
have been done in the visual domain.

Does anybody have know studies that tried to measure how long of a sound 
is needed to get the identification of the sound ("it's a bird") or get 
it's super-ordonate category ("it's an animal") ?


Thanks in advance for any references.


Sylvain Clément
Neuropsychology & Auditory Cognition Team
Lille, France

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Sylvain CLEMENT (MCF)
JE Neuropsychologie et Cognition Auditive (JE 2497)
UFR de Psychologie
BP 60149, Universite Ch. de Gaulle Lille 3
Domaine universitaire "Pont de Bois"
59 653 Villeneuve d'ascq Cedex
FRANCE

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