On the recovery of physical dimensions of stimuli, using multidimensional scaling
Byron J. T. Morgan, Muriel M. Woodhead, John C. Webster · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 1976
The results of three confusion experiments (acoustic presentation, visual presentation, and combined acoustic and visual presentation of the stimuli), involving artificial sounds constructed from four physical parameters, are analyzed using nonmetric multidimensional scaling (MDS). It appears that just three of the physical parameters are important in the confusions of these sounds in all three cases. The parameter sets used in the combined and visual presentation experiments were identical and differed from that used in the acoustic presentation experiment. Subject Classification: [43]65.75, [43]65.58.