Auditory Scene Analysis: Concurrent and sequential Organization

Question 1

Concurrent grouping

Answer 1

Auditory fusion – organization of acoustic surface

into musical events

Question 2

Sequential grouping

Answer 2

Auditory streaming – connection of events into

musical streams

Question 3

Segmental grouping

Answer 3

Auditory segmentation – “chunking” of event

streams into musical units

Question 4

Harmonicity

Answer 4

Shift in the virtual pitch of a complex tone as a function of the shift in frequency of one harmonic