Subject: Re: By any other name... (and other Italian contributions to auditory perception) From: Massimo Grassi <massimo.grassi@xxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 11:25:10 +0100 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>Dear list members, I thought Italians could have at least one first-discovery in hearing perception but Al Bregman showed me I was wrong (see below). However, I reckon no one can argue that, at least, we won the 2006 football world cup! m > P.S. > > The first formal report that I could find about perceptual grouping of > tones was by Otto Otrmann: > > Ortmann, O., (1926) On the melodic relativity of tones. Psychological > Monographs, 35, Whole No. 162. > > Although he used a different terminology (e.g., "association") than > the one we now use, he clearly described the perceptual grouping of > tones by frequency. ******************** Massimo Grassi - PhD Dipartimento di Psicologia Generale Via Venezia 8 - 35131 Padova - Italy http://www.psy.unipd.it/~grassi ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SEMEL (SErvizio di Messaging ELettronico) - CSIT -Universita' di Udine