Subject: Re: Perception as memory From: Eliot Handelman <eliot@xxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:09:15 -0400 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>Richard M. Warren wrote: > > Kevin Austin has started this thread with his 8/23 posting describing > how it is possible to teach many of his listeners to hear out the note > “D” in a 10-item chord by presenting the note in isolation as well as > a component in the intact chord. He interpreted his observations as > representing both a refinement of memory and an improvement of > perceptual ability. He asked whether listeners would be able to do > this with other sounds. > Prof. Warren and others, I understood Kevin to be asking something different. In ear-training, one problem is to teach students to hear the individual tones of a chord so that they can write these down. Essentially, the students must learn perceptual decomposition of a complex sound into its components. If you learn to perceptually isolate one tone of a chord through priming, as in Kevin's class experiment, can this generalize to a perception of tones in a chord WITHOUT priming? -- eliot