PERCEPTUAL ORGANIZATION: AN INVESTIGATION OF VISUAL AND AUDITORY SENSORY INTERACTION,
Abstract
The purpose of this research was to determine if multidimensional visual and auditory stimuli could be categorized along a common psychological dimension of complexity. Three studies examined this problem, using random shapes as the visual stimuli and ''tonal clusters'' (musically defined chords produced either by an organ or by pure tone oscillators) as the auditory stimuli. As a check on the methodology using successive categories, the same stimuli were divided into two subsets and each was judged for similarity by new groups of subjects using the method of paired comparisons. Twenty-five subjects judged one subset, and 28 the other. The results by this method were generally consistent with those obtained with the method of successive categories with the exception that frequency range was found to be a more significantly confounding variable. The implications of the results for the processing of simultaneously experienced stimulation by central mediation are discussed. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 1964
- Accession Number
- AD0428258
Entities
People
- Robert Stanley Zeigen
Organizations
- Purdue University