An Auditory Figure-Ground Effect

1 December 1957

journal article
research article
Published by University of Illinois Press in The American Journal of Psychology

Vol. 70 (4) , 653-654
https://doi.org/10.2307/1419466

Abstract

When 2 alternately sounding tones are employed, "Under certain conditions, the more intense of the 2 tones is heard as clearly inter*[image] mittent (somewhat as "figure"), and the less intense appears to sound continuously (somewhat as "ground").".

Keywords

HEARING
SOUNDS