Objects and Sound Perception

Authors

Nicolas J. Bullot and Paul Égré

First Paragraph

Philosophical and scientific debates on perception have been largely dominated by research on vision (see Bennett 1966, p. 30; Casati and Dokic 1994; Spence and Driver 2004; Calvert et al. 2004). However, our perceptual knowledge of physical objects, like our actions, depends on the connections between distinct perceptual modalities and a number of cognitive systems besides vision. Among the latter, audition appears most prominently. Similarly to vision, audition is an essential source of spatiotemporal information about the world. Hearing acquaints us with spatially distant events or objects in a way that cannot be achieved through modalities such as smell, touch or taste, which require more direct physical or chemical contact with their sources. Furthermore, audition plays an essential part in language and speech, and as such, it is also of central importance in the understanding of human cognition.

Link

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13164-009-0006-3