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.
Note
Open issues: Tightly coupled to a specific measurement tradition (ERP). If the Catalog ever generalizes beyond MMN, the category boundary with Selective and Sustained Attention (feature-based attention) will need review.
This category contains 4 processes.
Acoustic processing¶
Process ID: hed_acoustic_processing
Low-level analysis of sound, including frequency, intensity, and temporal structure.
Tasks that engage this process: Mismatch Negativity Task
Fundamental references
Fletcher (1940) Reviews of Modern Physics 12:47–65 (DOI)
Auditory perception¶
Process ID: hed_auditory_perception
Perception of sound, including pitch, timbre, loudness, and spatial location.
Tasks that engage this process: Auditory Masking Task, Mismatch Negativity Task
Fundamental references
von Békésy (1960) Experiments in Hearing McGraw-Hill
Auditory tone discrimination¶
Process ID: hed_auditory_tone_discrimination
Also known as: tone discrimination
Judgment of whether two tones differ in pitch, intensity, or duration.
Tasks that engage this process: Mismatch Negativity Task
Further references
Moore (2012) An Introduction to the Psychology of Hearing, 6th ed (DOI)
Pitch perception¶
Process ID: hed_pitch_perception
Also known as: pitch processing
Perception of the highness or lowness of a sound, related to fundamental frequency.
Tasks that engage this process: Mismatch Negativity Task
Further references