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Re: environmental non-noises



Hello Ferenc,

I understand you would like to connect to the literature on semantical processing in words. However, in the auditory domain you might have a much easier time if you focused on the identifiable vs. non-identifiable distinction, rather than on the noise vs. not-noise one.

If so, you should read Brian Gygi's work (e.g., JASA, 115 (3), 2004).

Best,
	Bruno


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Honbolygó Ferenc wrote:
Dear List members,

We are currently working on an experiment about the semantical processing of environmental noises. We are trying to do a similar task as the lexical decision task with words and nonwords, but with environmental noises and "non-noises". The problem is that we have a hard time creating non-noises which are quite environmental noise-like, but are not recognizable. We tried almost every distortion methods used in the literature (reversing, spectrally-rotating, scrambling the parts) but the sounds are always pretty much recognizable by most people.
Does anyone have any idea on how to create such non-recognizable non-noises based on existing environmental noises? Or is this idea just not feasible, because people will always think that what they heard is something real?
Thanks,
Ferenc Honbolygó