occam;180513 Wrote: > Does anyone have any references (academic peer review journal quality) > on the 'persistance' of aural memory? How long a gap between listening > to 'A' and then 'B' can elapse and still have that comparison remain > valid? Obviously, this might depend on the magnitude of those > differences, but I've found myself in the situation where in doing > comparisons, I frankly don't remember with any confidence what the > previous sample sounded like.
I think it's likely to be a more complicated can of worms than it would appear. Some kinds of auditory memory appear to have short duration. However, consider the following thought experiment. You receive a phone call at work. The only word said is "hello", yet you recognize the voice of your spouse. This is an auditory cue, and one degraded by the phone service as well, and yet you're perfectly able to recognize it over very long intervals (if not you could be in deep trouble at home). So, there are at least some auditory stimuli that are remembered over very long intervals (how long do you think it would take for you to forget your spouse's voice)? -- hirsch ------------------------------------------------------------------------ hirsch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7288 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32352 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
