Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: cross-modality-size-loud] From: Roy Patterson <rdp1@xxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:38:55 +0100 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>Peter Lennox wrote: > Is there likely to be some pitch-with-resonance component? - ie, larger objects > have longer 'intrinsic reverberation' (body resonance) than smaller, other > things being equal (material, etc) - and this actually tends to be lower, for > larger objects Yes. It is generally true in animal communication sounds. We have just written a chapter on it the next SHAR book. I can send you a preprint if you are interested. Regards Roy Patterson > regards > ppl > > Dr. Peter Lennox > S.P.A.R.G. > Signal Processing Applications Research Group > University of Derby > http://sparg.derby.ac.uk > Int. tel: 3155 > >>>> Bob Carlyon <bob.carlyon@xxxxxxxx> 17/09/2007 11:10 >>> > > > -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: cross-modality-size-loudDate: > Mon, 17 Sep 2007 09:56:55 +0100From: Jan Schnupp <jan@xxxxxxxx>Reply-To: > Jan Schnupp <jan@xxxxxxxx>To: AUDITORY@xxxxxxxx: > <001101c7f8bd$b7f802a0$3364f94d@xxxxxxxx> > > Dear Peter, > > if you hit a large bell and a small bell, how loud they are does not depend on > size, but on how hard you hit them. The larger the object the deeper the sound, > because resonant frequency is proportional to mass. So if there is a link with > size, then it should be pitch more than loudness. > > Jan > > On 17/09/2007, pieter jan stallen <pj.stallen@xxxxxxxx> wrote: Dear List,Does > anyone know of experimental psychological data reported which refutes (or not) > the hypothesis: the perception of object O as "has much of quality X" > predisposes to the perception also of "has much of quality Y"? E.g., is there > empirical evidence for cross-modal bonds like "large objects (much of size) are > loud objects (much of sound)" ? Although I see brain research approaching the > subject (e.g. http://www.dhushara.com/pdf/synesthesia.pdf ) I have not (yet) > found so much empirical psychology about such metaphors. I may not have studied > carefully enough the synaestesia literature, but appreciate any more specific > 'forwardings' then.Pieter Jan Stallen / Chair Community Noise Annoyance / > University of Leiden / Netherlands > > > > -- * ** *** * ** *** * ** *** * ** *** * ** *** * Roy D. Patterson Centre for the Neural Basis of Hearing Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience University of Cambridge Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EG http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/cnbh/ phone: +44 (1223) 333819 office fax: +44 (1223) 333840 department email rdp1@xxxxxxxx or roy.patterson@xxxxxxxx