Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Original Title -- Original Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- PART I: PERCEPTION OF COMPLEX AUDITORY PATTERNS -- 1. Pitch Perception: An Example of Auditory Pattern Recognition -- Introduction -- The Problem -- A Brief History -- Our Recent Experiments -- Conclusions -- References -- 2. Perception of Sound Signals at Low Signal-to-Noise Ratios -- Perceived Continuity of a Tone Alternated with Noise -- Triadic Comparisons of Signals Partly Masked by Noise -- Subharmonic Pitches of a Pure Tone at Low S/N Ratio -- Conclusions -- References -- 3. The Role of Stimulus Uncertainty in the Discrimination of Auditory Patterns -- Discriminability of Simple Sounds -- Perception and Discriminability of Tonal Patterns -- General Conclusions -- References -- 4. Meaningfulness and the Perception of Complex Sounds -- Introduction -- Factor Analyses -- Information Analyses -- Identifying Complex Sounds -- References -- 5. Speech Perception and Auditory Processing -- Introduction -- Distinctive Features (A Linguistic Term) -- Fluent Speech -- Conclusions -- References -- PART II: PERCEPTION OF COMPLEX VISUAL PATTERNS -- 6. Negligible Symmetry Effects in Dot-Pattern Detection -- Method -- Experiment I -- Results -- Discussion -- References -- 7. A Psychophysical Approach to Dimensional Integrality -- Historical Precedents -- The Psychophysics of Integrality -- References -- PART III: THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO PATTERN RECOGNITION -- 8. Feature-Extraction Approach to Auditory Pattern Recognition -- Introduction -- Pattern Recognition -- Feature Extraction -- Extraction of Physical Features -- Mathematical Characterization of Received Auditory Patterns -- Digital Feature Extraction of Auditory Patterns -- Conclusions -- References -- 9. Pattern Recognition in Ocean Acoustics -- Introduction