Auditory and Visual Sensations
Professor Yoichi Ando, acoustic architectural designer of the Kirishima International Concert Hall in Japan, presents a comprehensive rational-scientific approach to designing performance spaces. His theory is based on systematic psychoacoustical observat
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Auditory and Visual Sensations
Auditory and Visual Sensations
“Music in Forest” by Keiko Ando. A forest filled with birdsong, before the emergence of human societies.
Yoichi Ando Guest Editor Peter Cariani
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Yoichi Ando Professor Emeritus, Kobe University 1-4-132-105 Hiyodoridai Kita, Kobe 657-1123 Japan [email protected] Guest Editor Peter Cariani Harvard Medical School 629 Watertown Street, Newton, MA USA [email protected]
ISBN 978-1-4419-0171-2 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-0172-9 DOI 10.1007/b13253 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2009929375 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2009 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Cover illustration: Cover photo [8.1] was provided by Kirishima International Music Hall, Kagoshima Pref. The back cover photo [8.2] was provided by the Tsuyama Music Cultural Hall, Tsuyama City. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Dedicated to Manfred R. Schroeder
Preface
This book is one of the first scientific attempts to relate aesthetics to neural activity patterns in both auditory and visual areas of the brain. We present a host of correspondences between human subjective preferences and brain activity as observed through electroencephalography (EEG) and magnetoencephalography (MEG). The multimodal set of investigations presented in this book grew out of the development of a neurally grounded theory of subjective preference for sound fields in concert halls. The theory is based on a model of the human auditory system (Ando, 1985, 1998, 2007). In the theory, subjective preference is shaped by ecological utility to embody patterns of primitive responses that enhance survival. The auditory preference model assumes two kinds of internal representations of sound that are based on the correlation structure of sound as it presents itself to the two ears. These representations are based on autocorrelation and crosscorrelation. The autocorrelation function (ACF) describes the monaural signal at each of the two ears, and the interaural crosscorrelation function (IACF) describes the correlations between the two monaural signals arriving at the entrances of the two ears. The autocorrelation and crosscorrelation representations have a firm neural basis in the temporal pattern
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