Abstract
The present study was designed to provide insight into the perceptual structure of everyday sounds and how that structure relates to the external acoustic signal. Two large stimulus sets of 74 sounds each were used to gather sorting data, attribute ratings, and basic acoustic measurements for analysis using multidimensional scaling solutions (MDS). Correlations between and among the acoustic measurements and attribute ratings were as expected. The resulting MDS solutions with regressed vectors for attribute ratings and acoustic measurements revealed a well‐defined three‐dimensional perceptual structure for both stimulus sets. Similarities and differences in the scaling solutions will be discussed. Information about perceptual structure from such studies can be used by researchers to increase basic knowledge about how people perceive the relationships among everyday sounds as well as by designers of virtual reality environments to assist in developing algorithms for realistic synthesized sounds.
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