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Re: [AUDITORY] Maximum temporal window for pattern recognition and the perception of redundancy

Hi Dario, 

Concerning the second question you might want to look up work by Josh McDermott, for example https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23434915, see also the commentary by myself and Eli Nelken:  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23528936 (pdf on request).

Concerning the first, in addition to the other excellent suggestions made on the list, you might look up Trevor Agus’s paper on memory of noise: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20510864.

Best,
Alain




> On 1 Feb 2017, at 14:40, Dario Sanfilippo <sanfilippo.dario@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Hello, dear list.
> 
> I would like to ask you a couple of questions and I will be very grateful if you could help me. It would be great to be pointed out to specific publications, thank you so much in advance for that.
> 
> The first question is on the maximum temporal window for the recognition of patterns in long-term audio events. Generally speaking, what is the largest (temporal) distance between audio events so that we can still process such events as interrelated? As an example, let's assume to have a sequence of different pitches equally spaced in time; what is the largest possible distance between them to still be able to perceive a melody?
> 
> The second question is on the perception of redundancy in relatively complex (i.e., dynamical equilibrium) long-term audio events. As an example, think of the sound of the sea: its internal structure is never the same although it keeps a strong identity from a global point of view. I believe that this is highly dependent on both the cultural background of the listener as well as the degree of complexity of the audio event itself, but is there any study which tries to relate the perception of redundancy (i.e., the moment in which the listener's attention drops) with a specific temporal window? And is there a connection or similarity between this window and the one described in my first question?
> 
> Thank you and best wishes.
> 
> Dario