Dear Dario & list,
Here are some reviews on auditory memory which are worth looking at. They both discuss auditory memory for a range of different stimuli:
Demany, L., & Semal, C. (2008). The role of memory in auditory perception. In Auditory Perception of Sound Sources,
edited by W.A. Yost, A.N. Popper & R.R. Fay (Springer Handbook of Auditory Research, vol.29). Springer
Verlag,
New York, 77-113.
Cowan, N. (1984). On short and long auditory stores. Psychological Bulletin, Vol 96(2), Sep 1984, 341-370.
All the best,
Trevor
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Date: Wednesday, 1 February 2017 at 14:40
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Subject: Maximum temporal window for pattern recognition and the perception of redundancy
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.