ELICITING INDIVIDUAL LANGUAGE DESCRIBING DIFFERENCES IN AUDITORY IMAGERY ASSOCIATED WITH FOUR MULTICHANNEL MICROPHONE TECHNIQUES

摘要

When different listeners hear several versions of a single piano performance, each of which is different from the others in a number of ways, those individual listeners might use any number of words to describe the differences that they hear. It is worth questioning whether they are hearing the same distinctions on identifiable auditory attributes, even though they name those distinctions differently. This question generally needs to be addressed in a systematic perceptual evaluation of modern techniques used for multichannel sound recording. The work described in this paper attempted to address this question through a controlled verbal elicitation that was followed by an examination of ratings on individualized attribute scales constructed from the results of the verbal elicitation for each of five listeners.