Subject: Re: [AUDITORY] Research in Auditory Processing From: Massimo Grassi <massimo.grassi@xxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 12:04:51 +0100 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>Dear all, An unsorted lists of information: This seems a recurring discussion in the list. I remember a similar discussion of 10 (15?, 20?) years ago. I vaguely remember that the thread was called "why high is high" or something similar (I have no time to check). 1. to John (and the others). In Italian "alto e basso" (high and low) are used indifferently for pitch and loudness. Therefore, if you say that a tone is "alto", people may interpret the sentence in different way= s. 2. Although there are evidences out there about the pitch-vertical space association there are also "missing associations". For example, in preverbal infants results are mixed. Walker, P., Bremner, J. G., Mason, U., Spring, J., Mattock, K., Slater, A. and Johnson, S. P. (2010). Preverbal infants=E2=80=99 sensitivity to synaesthetic cross-modality correspondences, Psychol. Sci. 21, 21=E2=80=93= 25. Lewkowicz, D. J. and Minar, N. J. (2014). Infants are not sensitive to synesthetic cross-modality correspondences. A comment to Walker et al. (2010), Psychol. Sci. 25, 832=E2=80=93834. 3. There is also the SMARC effect (we respond faster to a high pitch tone with a high-placed response key and viceversa, Rusconi et al., 2006) but it seems that the effect is liked to the coherent change in pitch and brightness of the tone (Pitteri et al). Pitteri, M., Marchetti, M., Priftis, K., & Grassi, M. (2017). Naturally together: Pitch-height and brightness as coupled factors for eliciting the SMARC effect in non-musicians. Psychological Research, 81, 243=E2=80=93= 254. doi: 10.1007/s00426-015-0713-6 Rusconi, E., Kwan, B., Giordano, B. L., Umilt=C3=A0, C., & Butterworth, B= . (2006). Spatial representation of pitch height: The SMARC effect. Cognition, 99, 113=E2=80=93129. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2005.01.004 It seems to me that the association pitch-zenith (if exists) is weak and can be modulated by several factors. I suspect also there is a bit of publication bias in this topic. Here in northern Italy spring is beginning. I hope it is beginning also where you read this email :-) Regards, m > Dear all, > > Sorry for being a bit late in this discussion. But, I wanted to share m= y thoughts: > > In studies such as (Cabrera & Tilley, 2003; Pratt, 1930; Roffler & Butl= er, 1968a, 1968b), subjects were asked to indicate their opinions by choo= sing from a single scale presented in front of them. This setup could pre= dispose them into associating any changes in the stimuli with changes in = the provided vertical scale. > > I found in [1,2] that listeners associate Risset tones more often to so= urces moving in the horizontal plane than the vertical one. Upward glissa= ndi is more often associated with approaching sources and downward glissa= ndi to receding. It seems that at least for Risset tones, Doppler Illusio= n is stronger than the Pratt effect. > > These are the references: > > Cabrera, D., & Tilley, S. (2003). Vertical localization and image size = effects in loudspeaker reproduc- tion. In Proceedings of the 24th Interna= tional Conference on Audio Engineering Society. Audio Engineering Society > > Pratt, C. C. (1930). The spatial character of high and low tones. Journ= al of Experimental Psychology, 13, 278=E2=80=93285. > > Roffler, S. K., & Butler, R. A. (1968a). Factors that influence the loc= alization of sound in the vertical plane. Journal of Acoustical Society o= f America, 43, 1255=E2=80=931259. > > Roffler, S. K., & Butler, R. A. (1968b). Localization of tonal stimuli = in the vertical plane. Journal of > Acoustical Society of America, 43, 1260=E2=80=931266. > > [1] J. Villegas, =E2=80=9CAssociation of frequency changes with perceiv= ed horizontal and vertical movement,=E2=80=9D Acoust. Sci. & Tech., Oct. = 2018. (submitted). > > [2] J. Villegas and N. Fukasawa, =E2=80=9CDoppler illusion prevails ove= r Pratt effect in Risset tones,=E2=80=9D Perception, vol. 47, no. 12, pp.= 1179=E2=80=931195, 2018. DOI: 10.1177/0301006618807338. > > Cheers, > > > Julian. >