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Functional Model of Quality Perception (Research Questions)

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Human Information Processing in Speech Quality Assessment

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This chapter describes a functional model of speech quality perception for listening-only test scenarios, specifying internal processes and memory representations along a hierarchy of sensory, perceptual, cognitive, and response-related processing stages. Components of the event-related brain potential are attached to specific internal processes as psychophysiological indicators. The final paragraph lists research questions to be addressed in the following three experimental studies (Chaps. 5–7).

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Note that the information flow visualized in Fig. 4.1 suggests an open-loop type of functional model that lacks any form of feedback [10]. However, this simplified illustration only serves the purpose of better readability, with actual processing dynamics being decidedly closed-loop [12]: feedback would be expected at different information processing stages, e.g., from response-related processing back to perception but also from action effect back to stimulus in the environment, hereby closing the perception-action cycle [13].

  2. 2.

    This relativity of (quality) perception calls into question a simplifying assumption made by earlier psychophysical accounts, namely, that perceptual events, as experiential outcomes of perception, are stable and invariant against contextual change and attention [25, 26].

  3. 3.

    The term effort will be reserved for the experiential correlate of load, namely, the subjective experience when one is engaging in a perceptual-cognitive or behavioral task [43] (or multiple concurrent tasks [31]), which taxes human information processing. Note that Kahneman sometimes uses “effort” synonymously with “capacity” [36], i.e., in the sense of “processing resources.”

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Uhrig, S. (2022). Functional Model of Quality Perception (Research Questions). In: Human Information Processing in Speech Quality Assessment. T-Labs Series in Telecommunication Services. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71389-8_4

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