Subject: Re: How much is needed for sound identification ? From: Massimo Grassi <massimo.grassi@xxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:11:18 +0200 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>> Does anybody have know studies that tried to measure how long of a sound > is needed to get the identification of the sound ("it's a bird") or get > it's super-ordonate category ("it's an animal") ? this is as close as I can get: Murray, Camen, Gonzalez Andino, Bovet, & Clarke1 (2006). Rapid Brain Discrimination of Sounds of Objects. The Journal of Neuroscience, 26(4), 1293–1302. hope this helps, m -- Massimo Grassi - PhD Dipartimento di Psicologia Generale Via Venezia 8 - 35131 Padova - Italy http://www.psy.unipd.it/~grassi http://percezione.wordpress.com/