Subject: Re: 1/f spectra From: Paris Smaragdis <paris(at)MEDIA.MIT.EDU> Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 15:13:07 -0500> I have heard it said on a number of occasions that 1/f spectra are very > commonly encountered among natural signals, and one might perhaps expect > the auditory system to reflect this fact in its design > (perhaps the fact that auditory filters get wider at higher CF and are > approximately logarithmically spaced is a simple relfection of the 1/f > nature of many sounds?) There's a bit of work on how the auditory system might have adapted to such filters given the structure of sound. It doesn't have an obvious connection to 1/f spectra, but it comes up with a pretty good reason as to why auditory filters are the way they are. My work is more CS oriented: http://web.media.mit.edu/~paris/phd/paris-pre.pdf Lewicki's work has more neuro-credibility, mentions 1/f in passing: http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~lewicki/papers/Lewicki-NatNeurosci-02.pdf Paris