The researches of masking made it clear that there is a bandpass like a filter in the auditory system. This is called the auditory filter and its central frequency is thought to be the frequency of an acoustic signal. If there exist this kind of filter, the authors expected that the noise image which is perceived when pure tone and noise simultaneously presented is different from the one which ...

The aim of the present work is to investigate whether Japanese listeners can recognize before the end of an utterance various social affective meanings expressed by a speaker. 28 native Japanese subjects participated in the experiment. For this experiment, one sentence consisting of 3 moras is uttered in 8 different social affects. Each affective expression is produced by 4 native Japanese spea...