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Mark DeBellis
 
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On 16 Jun 2005 03:14:23 GMT, wrote:

Mark DeBellis wrote:
I have the following worry about audio listening tests. Suppose the
meaningful variable is a property of an extended passage, not a short
snippet. Then a subject's failure to accurately distinguish or
re-identify may be due to an inability to retain the property in
memory.


Then it's not audible. End of discussion.


If you hear something but do not retain a memory of it (sufficient to
carry out a certain kind of test), you still heard it. No?