Research Group Computational Auditory Perception
Focusing largely on the auditory modality, the Computational Auditory Perception Research Group explores the roles of experience and exposure in creating and affecting our perception of the world. Using novel methodologies including massive online experiments and cross-cultural research, we aim to characterize the ways in which people from diverse backgrounds internalize and process external conditions. Studying such differences and similarities can help us better ascertain the interaction of nature and nurture in generating individual sensory experiences.
PsyNet: The Online Human Behavior Lab of the Future
Over the past decade, research in psychology, sociology, and economics has begun to incorporate online participant pools to varying extents. These online pools allow experimenters to increase the sample size and diversity of their participant groups, while also enabling experiments that would be nearly impossible to conduct in the lab, for example exploring interactions between thousands of participants within social networks.
Studying Consonance Perception in Continuous Pitch and Timbre Space
Consonance is a fundamental aspect of music perception that has been studied for many centuries. Most of this work relies heavily on musical stimuli drawn from quantized musical scales (e.g., 12-tone equal temperament, or the Bohlen-Pierce scale), synthesized either using idealized harmonic complex tones or Western instrument sounds (e.g., piano, clarinet).
Using Serial Reproduction to Reveal Spatial Priors in Navigation
Navigation poses a difficult problem for the human visual system, which must process complex and noisy scenes while keeping pace with a relentless stream of incoming information.
Automating Ethnological Rhythmic Analysis of Messiaen
There are a number of unanswered questions about Olivier Messiaen’s use of ethnological rhythmic fragments; in particular, Śārṅgadeva’s set of deçi-tâlas––a collection of 120+ popular provincial rhythms collected in 13th century India––and Greek prosodic feet.
Gibbs Sampling with People
As cognitive scientists, we are often interested in mapping the relationship between external stimuli (e.g., spoken sentences, musical chords, faces) and semantic features that the mind derives from these stimuli (e.g., happiness, sadness, pleasantness).
A Robust Cross-Platform Solution for Online Sensorimotor Synchronization Experiments
Sensorimotor synchronization (SMS), the rhythmic coordination of perception and action, is a fundamental human skill that supports many behaviors, from repetitive daily routines to the highest forms of behavioural coordination, including music and dance (see Repp, 2005; Repp & Su, 2013, for reviews).
Experimenting with Governance in Virtual Worlds
Culture is deep inside us, in our ability to speak, in our sense of belonging, in our values. The capacity of our brain to adapt to and integrate culture is what makes us human: from birth, our mind is set to absorb concepts, technologies and social conventions that accumulated over thousands of generations.
Cultural Foundations of Auditory Perception
Over 90% of psychology experiments between 2003-2007 were conducted on WEIRD subjects, hailing from Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic societies (Arnett 2008). Henrich et al. (2010) have argued that these populations constitute an extremely biased sample across several critical dimensions, manifested in paradigms from basic visual and spatial perception to social cognition.
Contact
Dr. Nori Jacoby
Forschungsgruppe Computational Auditory Perception
Forschungsgruppenleiter
+49 69 8300479-820
Team
Dr. Manuel Anglada-Tort
Forschungsgruppe Computational Auditory Perception
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
+49 69 8300479-820
Luke Poeppel
Forschungsgruppe Computational Auditory Perception
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
+49 69 8300479-823
