The Intrinsic Memorability of Everyday Sounds

Ramsay D, Ananthabhotla I, Paradiso J. The Intrinsic Memorability of Everyday Sounds. In: AES Conference: 2019 AES International Conference on Immersive and Interactive Audio. Audio Engineering Society; 2019. Paper 87. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=20434

@inproceedings{Ramsay2019_20434,
  author = {Ramsay, David and Ananthabhotla, Ishwarya and Paradiso, Joseph},
  title = {{The Intrinsic Memorability of Everyday Sounds}},
  booktitle = {AES Conference: 2019 AES International Conference on Immersive and Interactive Audio},
  note = {Paper 87},
  year = {2019},
  month = mar,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=20434}
}

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TI  - The Intrinsic Memorability of Everyday Sounds
AU  - Ramsay, David
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AU  - Paradiso, Joseph
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AB  - Of the many sounds we encounter throughout the day, some stay lodged in our minds more easily than others; these may serve as powerful triggers of our memories. In this paper, we measure the memorability of everyday sounds across 20,000 crowd-sourced aural memory games, and then analyze the relationship between memorability and acoustic cognitive salience features; we also assess the relationship between memorability and higher-level gestalt features such as its familiarity, valence, arousal, source type, causal certainty, and verbalizability. We suggest that modeling these cognitive processes opens the door for human-inspired compression of sound environments, automatic curation of large-scale environmental recording datasets, and real-time modification of aural events to alter their likelihood of memorability.
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