TY - JOUR
T1 - Comparisons of auditory impressions and auditory imagery associated with onomatopoeic representation for environmental sounds
AU - Takada, Masayuki
AU - Fujisawa, Nozomu
AU - Obata, Fumino
AU - Iwamiya, Shin Ichiro
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank all of the participants for their participation in the experiments. This paper was supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (no. 15300074) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Humans represent sounds to others and receive information about sounds from others using onomatopoeia. Such representation is useful for obtaining and reporting the acoustic features and impressions of actual sounds without having to hear or emit them. But how accurately can we obtain such sound information from onomatopoeic representations? To examine the validity and applicability of using verbal representations to obtain sound information, experiments were carried out in which the participants evaluated auditory imagery associated with onomatopoeic representations created by listeners of various environmental sounds. Results of comparisons of impressions between real sounds and onomatopoeic stimuli showed that impressions of sharpness and brightness for both real sounds and onomatopoeic stimuli were similar, as were emotional impressions such as pleasantness for real sounds and major (typical) onomatopoeic stimuli. Furthermore, recognition of the sound source from onomatopoeic stimuli affected the emotional impression similarity between real sounds and onomatopoeia.
AB - Humans represent sounds to others and receive information about sounds from others using onomatopoeia. Such representation is useful for obtaining and reporting the acoustic features and impressions of actual sounds without having to hear or emit them. But how accurately can we obtain such sound information from onomatopoeic representations? To examine the validity and applicability of using verbal representations to obtain sound information, experiments were carried out in which the participants evaluated auditory imagery associated with onomatopoeic representations created by listeners of various environmental sounds. Results of comparisons of impressions between real sounds and onomatopoeic stimuli showed that impressions of sharpness and brightness for both real sounds and onomatopoeic stimuli were similar, as were emotional impressions such as pleasantness for real sounds and major (typical) onomatopoeic stimuli. Furthermore, recognition of the sound source from onomatopoeic stimuli affected the emotional impression similarity between real sounds and onomatopoeia.
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U2 - 10.1155/2010/674248
DO - 10.1155/2010/674248
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:78650753785
VL - 2010
JO - Eurasip Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing
JF - Eurasip Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing
SN - 1687-4714
M1 - 674248
ER -