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标题：EXTRACTING MEANING FROM SOUND: NOMIC MAPPINGS, EVERYDAY LISTENING, AND PERCEIVING OBJECT SIZE FROM FREQUENCY
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作者：Coward, Sean W ; Stevens, Catherine J
期刊名称：The Psychological Record
印刷版ISSN：0033-2933
电子版ISSN：2163-3452
出版年度：2004
卷号：54
期号：3
页码：2
出版社：Southern Illinois University Carbondale
摘要：ogical acoustics, Gaver (1993b) distinguished between theexperience of musical listening (perceiving sounds) and everydaylistening (perceiving sources of sounds). Within the everydaylistening experience, Gaver (1993a) proposed that the frequencyof an object results from, and therefore specifies, the size of thatobject. The relation in which frequency and object size stand toone another is an example of a nomic mapping. A symbolicmapping involves the pairing of unrelated dimensions and, relativeto a nomic mapping, requires an additional step in recognition andlearning. Using a perceptual identification task, an experimentinvestigated the hypothesis that nomic mappings are identifiedmore easily than symbolic mappings. It was predicted that theadvantage manifests only during the everyday listeningexperience, and that the initially superior recognition of nomicmappings is equaled by symbolic mappings after extendedexposure. The results provided support for the hypotheses.Theoretical implications of the differential recognition of nomic andsymbolic mappings are discussed, together with practicalapplications of nomic relations.