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Earlier work with unpracticed Ss has indicated that identification (naming) of the temporal order of components within repeated sequences consisting of three or four unrelated sounds cannot be accomplished when the item durations are 200 msec or less. In the present experiment, separate groups of 30 unpracticed Ss were required to teil whether alternated sequences, each consisting of reiterated presentations of the same three or four successive items, were in identical or permuted order. Naming of the order within the sequences was not required. Accuracy of same/different judgments was significantly better than chance when all items lasted 200 msec. Changing the duration of each item in one of the two sequences above or below 200 msec made the task more difficult. These results, together with other evidence, suggest that: (1) identification of order and recognition of auditory temporal patterns may represent fundamentally different processes, and (2) recognition may involve matching of “temporal templates.”
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This study was supported by grants from the National Science Foundation (GB-26459 and GB-3698639, and from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Graduate School. Leong F. Tai provided valuable assistance with portions of the experimental work. A paper dealing with portions of this study was delivered at the 84th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, 1972.
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Warren, R.M. Auditory pattern recognition by untrained listeners. Perception & Psychophysics 15, 495–500 (1974). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03199291
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