Subject: environmental non-noises From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Honbolyg=F3_Ferenc?= <hf@xxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 13:51:53 +0100 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>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 -- Ferenc Honbolygó Research Institute for Psychology, HAS Department of Psychophysiology Research Group of Developmental Psychophysiology H-1394 Budapest, P.O.Box 398. Web: http://humlab.cogpsyphy.hu/ E-mail: hf@xxxxxxxx Tel: +361 354-2390 Fax: +361 354-2416