Subject: Re: perceptual segregation of sound From: Tom Lee <edgar109@xxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 08:02:22 -0700Hi! My thoughts: 1) I suppose you make an analogy to the visual system and attention to objects, there would be some degree of pre-attentional simultaneous segregation between streams, but it wouldn't be very good, and it would take attention (possibly switching back and forth) to really clearly segregate. 2) There's a bunch of stuff by Bob Carlyon about attention and streaming, isn't there? Let me know if you want me to dig through my computer for the references. I think his stuff is directly relevant to your question. 3) I noticed some replies bringing music into the discussion. IIRC, Hindemith made claim (as did someone unrelated) that no trained musician could follow more than 3 musical lines at the same time. Of course this raises questions about what constitutes a musical line, but I think it's interesting that that number is almost the same as the number from the sound engineer. -Tom Live by the foam sword; die by the foam sword! http://www.yale.edu/freeduel Keep the jukebox swinging. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com