BookKai Siedenburg [and 4 others], editors.
Summary: The Present, Past, and Future of Timbre Research Kai Siedenburg, Charalampos Saitis, and Stephen McAdams The Perceptual Representation of Timbre Stephen McAdams Timbre Recognition and Sound Source Identification Trevor R. Agus, Clara Suied, and Daniel Pressnitzer Memory for Timbre Kai Siedenburg and Daniel Müllensiefen The Semantics of Timbre Charalampos Saitis and Stefan Weinzierl Neural Correlates of Timbre Processing Vinoo Alluri and Sudarsana Reddy Kadiri Voice Processing and Voice-Identity Recognition Samuel Robert Mathias and Katharina von Kriegstein Timbre as a Structuring Force in Music Stephen McAdams Timbre, Sound Quality, and Sound Design Guillaume Lemaitre and Patrick Susini Timbre Perception with Cochlear Implants Jeremy Marozeau and Wiebke Lamping Audio Content Descriptors of Timbre Marcelo Caetano, Charalampos Saitis, and Kai Siedenburg Modulation Representations for Speech and Music Mounya Elhilali Timbre from Sound Synthesis and High-level Control Perspectives Sølvi Ystad, Mitsuko Aramaki, and Richard Kronland-Martinet Kai Siedenburg is Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Medical Physics and Acoustics at the Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany Charalampos Saitis is Lecturer and Humboldt Research Fellow in the Audio Communication Group at Technische Universität Berlin, Germany Stephen McAdams is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Music Perception and Cognition in the Department of Music Research at McGill University, Montreal, Canada Arthur N. Popper is Professor Emeritus and research professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Maryland, College Park Richard R. Fay is Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology at Loyola University, Chicago.
Contents:
Intro; Acoustical Society of America; Series Preface; Springer Handbook of Auditory Research; Preface 1992; Volume Preface; Contents; Contributors;
Chapter 1: The Present, Past, and Future of Timbre Research; 1.1 Timbre As a Research Field; 1.1.1 Inter-Disciplinary Perspectives; 1.1.2 Defining a Complex Auditory Parameter; 1.2 Milestones in Timbre Research; 1.2.1 Fourier and Helmholtz; 1.2.2 Timbre Spaces; 1.2.3 Verbal Attributes; 1.2.4 Recognition of Sound Sources and Events; 1.2.5 High-Dimensional Acoustic and Neuromimetic Representations; 1.2.6 Neural Correlates of Timbre Processing 1.3 Structure and Content of Volume1.3.1 Roadmap of Chapters; 1.3.2 Future Perspectives; References; Part I: Principal Perceptual Processes;
Chapter 2: The Perceptual Representation of Timbre; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Timbre Discrimination; 2.3 Multidimensional Conceptions of Timbre; 2.3.1 Multidimensional Scaling Models; 2.3.2 Timbre Spaces; 2.3.3 Acoustic Correlates of Timbre Space Dimensions; 2.4 Spectromorphological Conceptions of Timbre; 2.4.1 The Auditory Image Model; 2.4.2 Multiresolution Spectrotemporal Models; 2.5 Sound Source Perception; 2.5.1 Sound Source Geometry 2.5.2 Sound Source Materials2.5.3 Actions on Vibrating Objects; 2.6 Interaction with Other Auditory Attributes; 2.6.1 Timbre and Pitch; 2.6.2 Timbre and Playing Effort (Dynamics); 2.7 Summary and Conclusions; References;
Chapter 3: Timbre Recognition and Sound Source Identification;
Chapter 4: Memory for Timbre; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Auditory Memory Concepts; 4.2.1 Stores and Processes; 4.2.2 Granularity of Auditory Memory; 4.2.3 Capacity Limits in Short-Term Memory; 4.3 Factors in Short-Term Recognition; 4.3.1 Memory Capacity and Similarity; 4.3.2 Sequential Chunking 4.4 Active Maintenance and Imagery of Timbre4.4.1 Maintenance in Working Memory; 4.4.2 Mental Imagery of Timbre; 4.5 Interference Effects in Memory for Timbre; 4.5.1 Interference in Short-Term Memory; 4.5.2 Timbre and Long-Term Melodic Memory; 4.5.3 Timbre and Verbal Memory; 4.6 Familiarity and Voice Superiority; 4.6.1 Familiarity in Short-Term Recognition; 4.6.2 Voice Superiority; 4.7 Summary and Future Perspectives; 4.7.1 Principles of Memory for Timbre; 4.7.1.1 Integration: Timbre Information as Integrated Representations in Memory 4.7.1.2 Grouping: Memory for Timbre Sequences is Affected by Grouping Cues4.7.1.3 Familiarity: Better Memory Performance and Processing Accuracy; 4.7.1.4 Perceptual Simulation: Active Memory Rehearsal and Timbre Imagery; 4.7.1.5 Matching: Timbre Recognition via Similarity-Based Matching; 4.7.2 Future Perspectives; References;
Chapter 5: The Semantics of Timbre;
Chapter 6: Neural Correlates of Timbre Processing; 6.1 Introduction; 6.1.1 Levels of Abstraction; 6.1.2 Hierarchical Processing; 6.1.3 Types of Stimuli; 6.1.4 Measurement Modalities and Modeling Approaches of Brain Activity