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support for idea that advent of computers helped Auditory research catch up to pother perceptual research

in Bregamn 1990’s book “Auditory Scene Analysis: The Perceptual Organization of Sound” he describes how the head start that vision got in terms of research compared to auditory research is was due to how easy it is to create controlled visual stimuli compared to auditory stimuli. he then predicts (successfully) that that advent of computers will aid in auditory research catching up.

The earlier development of sophisticated thinking in the field of visual perception may also have been due to the
fact that it was much easier to create a visual display with exactly specified properties than it was to shape sound in
equally exact ways. If so, the present-day development of the computer analysis and synthesis of sound ought to
greatly accelerate the study of auditory perception. (Bregman, 1990, p. 16)

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