Seeing the wood for trees:Delineating global (holistic) and local (analytic) processing in the perception of sound spectral patterns（1）

       2014 Conference on Psychology and Social Harmony (CPSH 2014)——Processing sound patterns plays a critical part in auditory functions such as music perception, speech communication, and the identification and localization of sound sources. However, as important as the perception of sound patterns is, its underlying mechanisms are still largely unknown. An issue of particular interest concerns how the global or holistic processing of a sound pattern as a whole is related to the local or analytic processing of the individual components that make up the sound pattern. This presentation will describe our research efforts aimed at delineating the roles of global and local processing in the perception of sound patterns.