Position Paper: Processing sound for interpretation

Citation

Smith L (1993) Position Paper: Processing sound for interpretation. CCCN Technical Report, 17. Centre for Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience (CCCN).

Abstract
By taking an ecological view of sound perception strongly influenced by J.J. Gibson, we consider what the sound itself can usefully tell us about the source. We are therefore interested in extracting appropriate stimulus information. Since we also believe that low-level human auditory processing is independent of the nature of the sound, be it speech or not, we are interested in how the low-level human auditory system extracts such information. The eventual aim of this work is synthetic sound interpretation systems which can perform the simple tasks which we take for granted as humans. A brief description of a programme of research is included.