| Abstract: | Earlier identification experiments with sweep tones are repeated with rising and falling single formant (band) sweeps, with durations ranging from 15 to 40 msec and sweep rates from 0 to 40 oct/sec. Steady-state portions of 100-msec duration are then added to the sweeps. The general conclusions are that the tendency to perceive level and slightly rising tones as falling, which was such a prominent feature of the earlier results, disappears as the stimuli become more complex, and that sweep discrimination seems to be a function of the difference between the initial and the final frequency of a sweep. |
