On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Fons Adriaensen <f...@linuxaudio.org>wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 09:44:18AM +0100, Richard Dobson wrote: > > > I find it useful in mnay cases to relate colour vision to auditory > > "perfect pitch". People with the latter recognise the "absolute" > > pitch of a note, but may suffer from octave ambiguities, such that > > they are not sure whether one tone is above or below another - hence > > sometimes intervals are mis-identified. Most people have only > > "relative" pitch, which supports correct interval recognition, but > > not the direct recognition of pitches. Put another way: most > > listeners hear music as if in monochrome - good interval recognition > > (just as well when music is so often transposed in performance) but > > little or no certainty regarding exact pitch. Transposition is > > another auditory phenomenon with no natural direct analogue in > > vision. In music, transposition may go entirely unnoticed - national > > anthems can and are played in any key - but no such process seems to > > exist for vision. > > I strongly believe that any supposed similarity between perception > of colours and pitch, and any mapping of the one unto the other, is > extremely suspect. The physical processes are completely different. > agreed, but there has to be some correlation between sight and hearing because of the cognitive processes involved in perception. In sight and hearing, the mechanism of the cognitive processes will be identical. So what percentage of a perception is cognitive? 10%, 50%, 90%? Etienne -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20120612/c9d97068/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
