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