LISTENING: SOUND STREAM AS A CLOCK
Laura Tedeschini Lalli · International Journal of Modern Physics B · 2004
Sound happens in time. Human ears detect more objective regularities of a sonic flow, than those we are in general able to describe, yet. We review some studies of sound in the time-domain. Sound streams to be detected by human ears have a hierarchical organization. This can also be seen on the time-organization of entropic flow of the signal, that we choose as variable. We describe an experiment where ability to synchronize by ear a spoken signal with another signal of disturbs is matched to the entropic content of the spoken signal; i.e. the disturb is placed more precisely if it happens in areas of high entropy. This study is phenomenological.