Question 1

Describe how dominant stress patterns of your native language can affect perception of meter. When does this influence develop?

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Question 2

What is "melody schema"? Discuss the support for this concept.

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Question 3

Some people who are blind are able to use echolocation to locate objects and perceive shapes by making clicking noises and listening to the reverberations. When expert echolocators use this technique

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A)   they have 45% more activation in their frontal lobes than sighted individuals.
B)   they rely only on activation from the occipital lobe.
C)   the clicking sounds activate the auditory and visual cortices.
D)   the clicking sounds activate A1 but not subcortical structures.

Question 4

The ideal reverberation time for a small classroom is

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A)   about 500 milliseconds.
B)   about 3 seconds.
C)   the same as for large concert halls.
D)   about 6 seconds.

Question 5

Sound that reaches the ears after bouncing off a wall or a floor is called

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A)   direct sound.
B)   indirect sound.
C)   virtual sound.
D)   harmonics.

Question 6

Seven-month-old infants listened to a regular repeating ambiguous rhythm while they were bounced up and down at two bounces per beat or at three bounces per beat. Later, they were tested to see how they had perceived the rhythm. The results suggest that

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A)   the infants perceived the rhythm as presented - ambiguous.
B)   the infants always perceived the rhythm as occurring in twos.
C)   the infants' perception was influenced by how they were bounced.
D)   the vestibular system is not involved in auditory perception and movement.

Question 7

Discuss research that shows that similarity of pitch and timbre affects auditory grouping.

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Question 8

McAlpine's research on gerbils provides evidence for

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A)   narrowly tuned ITD neurons.
B)   broadly tuned ITD neurons.
C)   specificity-coding in the auditory cortex.
D)   narrowly tuned spectral neurons.

Question 9

The precedence effect is

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A)   the listener perceives the fused sound from two speakers to be originating from the lead speaker.
B)   the listener perceives the fused sound from two speakers to be originating from the lag speaker.
C)   the listener cannot fuse the sound from two speakers because the lead speaker is too loud.
D)   the listener cannot fuse the sound from two speakers because the lag speaker is too loud.

Question 10

What factors are important to consider when designing concert halls? What differences exist between designing concert halls and classroom?

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Question 11

Interaural level differences are a cue to auditory localization because the

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A)   person's head creates an acoustic shadow that prevents high-frequency sounds from reaching the far ear.
B)   person's head creates an acoustic shadow that prevents low-frequency sounds from reaching the far ear.
C)   medium through which the sound travels can be air, liquid, or solid.
D)   acoustic shadow is more likely to occur in an enclosed space than outdoors.

Question 12

Define visual capture and give examples of this concept.

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Question 13

The importance of similarity of timbre as auditory grouping principle has been supported by

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A)   implied polyphony.
B)   auditory stream segregation.
C)   location restoration effect.
D)   compound melodic line.

Question 14

The ventriloquism effect is

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A)   a veridical representation of the physical stimuli.
B)   an example of how vision influences auditory perception.
C)   a strictly physiological effect.
D)   when dummy variables are used in statistical analyses.

Question 15

Vision: figure-ground segregation :: Audition: ________________.

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A)   the ecological approach
B)   intimacy
C)   auditiory scene analysis
D)   Fourier analysis

Question 16

Coincidence detectors

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A)   fire when the ITD equals 0.
B)   fire when the ITD is greater than 20.
C)   have been found in humans, but not in non-mammals.
D)   fire when the ILD is greater than 50.

Question 17

The ____ is important for binaural localization because it is where signals from the left and right ears first meet.

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A)   medial geniculate nucleus
B)   cochlear nucleus
C)   inferior colliculus
D)   superior olivary nucleus

Question 18

The cue of interaural level difference is

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A)   not effective for low-frequency sound stimuli.
B)   equally effective for high- and low-frequency sound stimuli.
C)   not effective for high-frequency sound stimuli.
D)   only effective for middle-frequency sound stimuli.

Question 19

If there is an interaural time difference, we interpret the sound as coming from

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A)   directly in front of us.
B)   directly behind us.
C)   the side.
D)   directly above us.

Question 20

The ___________ is composed of the locations where the ILD and ITD are the same.

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A)   common region
B)   cone of confusion
C)   inverse acoustic range
D)   Jeffries tube

Exam 12: Auditory Localization and Organization

The cue of interaural level difference is

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If there is an interaural time difference, we interpret the sound as coming from

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Discuss research that shows that similarity of pitch and timbre affects auditory grouping.

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Interaural level differences are a cue to auditory localization because the

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The ideal reverberation time for a small classroom is

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The ventriloquism effect is

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The precedence effect is

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Vision: figure-ground segregation :: Audition: ________________.

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What is "melody schema"? Discuss the support for this concept.

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Some people who are blind are able to use echolocation to locate objects and perceive shapes by making clicking noises and listening to the reverberations. When expert echolocators use this technique

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Seven-month-old infants listened to a regular repeating ambiguous rhythm while they were bounced up and down at two bounces per beat or at three bounces per beat. Later, they were tested to see how they had perceived the rhythm. The results suggest that

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The ____ is important for binaural localization because it is where signals from the left and right ears first meet.

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The importance of similarity of timbre as auditory grouping principle has been supported by

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Describe how dominant stress patterns of your native language can affect perception of meter. When does this influence develop?

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Coincidence detectors

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Sound that reaches the ears after bouncing off a wall or a floor is called

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The ___________ is composed of the locations where the ILD and ITD are the same.

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What factors are important to consider when designing concert halls? What differences exist between designing concert halls and classroom?

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Define visual capture and give examples of this concept.

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