Subject: Re: [AUDITORY] Research in Auditory Processing From: Axel Roebel <axel.roebel@xxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 09:56:11 +0100 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>Hello On 11/03/19 13:01, Peter Lennox wrote: > But I=92m not sure that it=92s as intuitive to equate higher pitch=3D g= reater quantity. I mean, I can grasp it visually (I suppose one could try= for an > evolutionary argument =96 a higher pile=3D a greater quantity, or some = such). I am all for the evolutionary argument! In fact if you see this from a ph= ysical perspective (us living in a world) then larger bodies make lower sounds. So the relation high =3D large cannot be linked to a predominant = world experience (besides for musicians - see Neuhoff 2002 (:-) - but als= o for musicians a high note is produced by a smaller instrument, so it depends = on the context the person uses to interpret the data). For visual presentations it seems hard to find situations where you need to look up = for something smaller. Best Axel --=20 Axel Roebel Analysis/Synthesis Team, IRCAM Phone: ++33-1-4478 4845 | Fax: ++33-1-4478 1540