Listeners' discrimination of real and human-imitated animal sounds.
To determine if listeners can accurately distinguish between real and human-imitated animal sounds, a total of 165 recorded sounds (55 real and 110 human-imitated) of cats, cows, dogs, pigs, and sheep were randomly arranged on a master tape and presented to 30 listeners for discriminative judgments. Results indicate that, in general, listeners can accurately discriminate real from human-imitated animal sounds. Suggestions for future research are discussed.
D000818:Animals; D001307:Auditory Perception; D002415:Cats; D002417:Cattle; D004285:Dogs; D006801:Humans; D012756:Sheep; D013552:Swine; D014828:Vocalization, Animal