The Influence of the Communication Situation on the Perception and Description of Complex Sound

In this paper we are going to discuss the data of a combined experimental study in perception and judgment of the characteristics of complex acoustic signals. The structure of the experiment involved joint activity of subjects and the possibility of their verbal interaction. Some results of this work have been published previously [2,9], but they dealt only with analysis of data provided by the individual phases of the experiment. The main emphasis in this paper is on data obtained under various conditions of joint activity compared with the characteristics of individual activity.