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Auditory Perception Of Material Is Fragile While Action Is Strikingly Robust, Guillaume Lemaitre, Laurie Heller
Auditory Perception Of Material Is Fragile While Action Is Strikingly Robust, Guillaume Lemaitre, Laurie Heller
L M Heller
While many psychoacoustic studies have found that listeners can recover some causal properties of sound-generating objects (such as the material), comparatively little is known about the causal properties of the sound-generating actions and how they are perceived. This article reports on a study comparing the performance of listeners required to identify either the actions or the materials used to generate sound stimuli. Stimuli were recordings of a set of cylinders of two sizes and four materials (wood, plastic, glass, metal) undergoing four different actions (scraping, rolling, hitting, bouncing). Experiment 1 tested how well each sound conveyed that it was generated …