The systematic scientific investigation of human perception began over 130 years ago, yet relatively little is known about how we identify complex patterns. A major reason for this is that historically, most perceptual research focused on the more basic processes involved in the detection and discrimination of simple stimuli. This work progressed in a connectionist fashion, attempting to clarify fundamental mechanisms in depth before addressing the more complex problems of pattern recognition and classification. This extensive and impressive research effort built a firm basis from which to speculate about these issues. What seemed lacking, however, was an overall characterization of the recognition problem – a broad theoretical structure to direct future research in this area. Consequently, our primary objective in this volume, originally published in 1981, was not only to review existing contributions to our understanding of classification and recognition, but to project fruitful areas and directions for future research as well. The book covers four areas: complex visual patterns; complex auditory patterns; multi-dimensional perceptual spaces; theoretical pattern recognition.
Preface. Part 1: Perception of Complex Auditory Patterns
1. Pitch
Perception: An Example of Auditory Pattern Recognition Frederic L. Wightman
2. Perception of Sound Signals at Low Signal-to-Noise Ratios Reinier Plomp
3. The Role of Stimulus Uncertainty in the Discrimination of Auditory
Patterns Charles S. Watson and William J. Kelly
4. Meaningfulness and the
Perception of Complex Sounds John C. Webster
5. Speech Perception and
Auditory Processing A.W.F. Huggins Part 2: Perception of Complex Visual
Patterns
6. Negligible Symmetry Effects in Dot-Pattern Detection William R.
Uttal and Thelma E. Tucker
7. A Psychophysical Approach to Dimensional
Integrality Robert G. Pachella, Patricia Somers and Mary Hardzinski Part 3:
Theoretical Approaches to Pattern Recognition
8. Feature-Extraction Approach
to Auditory Pattern Recognition Julius T. Tou
9. Pattern Recognition in Ocean
Acoustics Arthur E. Bisson Part 4: Multidimensional Perceptual Spaces
10.
Multidimensional Perception Spaces: Similarity Judgment and Identification
David J. Getty, John A. Swets and Joel B. Swets
11. Feature Selection in
Auditory Perception James H. Howard, Jr. and James Ballas
12. Auditory
Perception: Recommendations for a Computer Assisted Experimental Paradigm
Cynthia H. Null and Forrest W. Young. Author Index. Subject Index.
David J. Getty, Jr. Howard
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