著者

日比 正史

出版者

Acoustical Society of Japan

雑誌

Journal of the Acoustical Society of Japan (E) (ISSN:03882861)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.4, no.2, pp.83-95, 1983 (Released:2011-02-17)

参考文献数

12

被引用文献数

21 38

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In perception of regular sequence of stimulus sounds that is neither too rapid nor too slow, we tend to perceive it as rhythmic. In the present study, we investigated the degree of temporal distortion intervened in the sequence which was needed in order for listeners to be able to report an irregularity, and we also investigated the timing patterns of the repetition of monosyllables as a response to the regular sound sequence. The degree of distortion which afforded 50% judgments of detection was found to be about 6% in the region of rates slower than 3 times per second, and about 7.6∼8.9% depending upon the type of distortion in the region of rates more rapid than 4 times per second. Another experiment showed that a negative correlation between the time intervals of neighboring vicinity which suggested an adjusting mechanism was found only in the region of rates slower than 3 times per second. From the results, the author tentatively concludes that the ongoing processing mechanism works in the region of rates slower than 3 times per second and the wholistic processing mechanism works in the region of rates more rapid than 3 times per second.