Mr. Herbert is one of many musicians who, rather than appropriating extracts from others' songs, use found, ambient and other naturally occurring sounds as the foundation for their tunes.
A counting task drew the attention of participants to picture presentation and was unrelated to the occurring sounds.
Gaver's taxonomy is well thought out, plausible, and fairly comprehensive, in that it includes a wide range of naturally occurring sounds.
Now imagine that on the scale of large wind turbines, located outside, on towers over 200 feet high, surrounded by all of the other naturally occurring sounds in the immediate environment.
The verbal stimuli used in this experiment were written and spoken object names because this permitted a controlled comparison to nonverbal audiovisual stimuli in the form of pictures of objects and the naturally occurring sounds associated with objects.
By selectively reducing responses to frequently, but not rarely, occurring sounds, auditory cortical neurons are thought to enhance the brain's ability to detect unexpected events through stimulus-specific adaptation (SSA).
Harland Braun, a veteran criminal defense attorney who has represented celebrities and other high-profile clients, said the story the fiancée told him about what occurred "sounds so bizarre".
In perhaps the most comprehensive study [31], ratings of 145 environmental sounds were obtained representing various categories of naturally occurring environmental sounds (e.g., impact sounds, water sounds, ambient sounds) on 20 7-point bipolar scales.
However, the knowledge base still lags far behind that of the other major classes of naturally occurring everyday sounds, speech, and music.
Purely verbal audiovisual stimuli were simultaneously presented spoken and written object names, purely nonverbal stimuli were photographs of objects simultaneously presented with naturally occurring object sounds.
