Auditory and Pre-Attentive Deviance Processing

Scope: Pitch perception, auditory tone discrimination, acoustic processing, auditory perception; the family of processes indexed by MMN / oddball paradigms.

This category contains 4 processes.


Acoustic processing

Process ID: hed_acoustic_processing

Low-level analysis of sound, including frequency, intensity, and temporal structure.

Tasks

The following tasks engage this process:

Fundamental references

  • Fletcher (1940) Reviews of Modern Physics 12:47–65


Auditory perception

Process ID: hed_auditory_perception

Perception of sound, including pitch, timbre, loudness, and spatial location.

Tasks

The following tasks engage this process:

Fundamental references

  • von Békésy (1960) Experiments in Hearing


Auditory tone discrimination

Process ID: hed_auditory_tone_discrimination

Judgment of whether two tones differ in pitch, intensity, or duration.

Tasks

The following tasks engage this process:

Recent references

  • Moore (2012) An Introduction to the Psychology of Hearing, 6th ed


Pitch perception

Process ID: hed_pitch_perception

Perception of the highness or lowness of a sound, related to fundamental frequency.

Tasks

The following tasks engage this process:

Recent references

  • Oxenham (2012) Trends in Amplification 16:174–185