# Summary- A Tripartite Framework for Audition (2) **Opening (not a real abstract):** Summary: A Tripartite Framework For Audition What do we hear? More specifically, what type of individuals are represented in auditory perception and what properties are attributed to them? When an object in our environment vibrates it produces pressure waves in the surrounding air and when these waves hit our eardrums we become aware of three aspects of our environment: the vibrating material object and some of its properties, the manner in which it is caused to vibrate, and, often, the size of the space enclosing the object. We might learn for example, that a medium-sized, metal, bell has been struck in a large hall. One popular account of auditory perception states that what we hear in this case is a particular produced by, and therefore ​distinct from​, the bell, such as the disturbances of the air themselves. If