FUNCTIONAL IMAGERY AND ONOMATOPOEIC REPRESENTATION OF AUDITORY SIGNALS USING FREQUENCY-MODULATED TONES

• YAMAUCHI Katsuya

  Faculty of Design, Kyushu Univ.

• IWAMIYA Shinichiro

  Department of Acoustic Design, Faculty of Design, Kyushu Univ.

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• 周波数変調音の擬音語表現とサイン音としての機能イメージ

Abstract

To obtain basic data for designing easy to understand and memorize auditory signals, we examined the functionary imagery and onomatopoeic representations associated with periodic frequency-modulated (FM) tones. When the modulation wave was rectangular and the modulation rate was slower than 5Hz, FM tones were associated with the imagery of alarm and were represented by repeatedly prolonged syllables. When the modulation rate was 15 to 30Hz, FM tones evoked the functional imagery of calling and the onomatopoeic representation of repeated flapping. These results showed that the functional imagery and onomatopoeic representation of FM tones varied as a function of modulation rate.

Journal

• Japanese Journal of Physiological Anthropology

  Japanese Journal of Physiological Anthropology 10 (3), 115-122, 2005

  Japan Society of Physiological Anthropology

Keywords

• Auditory signal
• Onomatopoeic representation
• Functional imagery
• Frequency-modulated (FM) tones

Details

• CRID: 1390282679432870016
• NII Article ID: 110002558334
• NII Book ID: AN1052804X
• DOI: 10.20718/jjpa.10.3_115
• ISSN: 24320986
• ISSN: 13423215
• Text Lang: ja
• Data Source:
  • JaLC
  • CiNii Articles
  • KAKEN
• Abstract License Flag: Disallowed