Informational content of verbal data in the task of preserving and transmitting cognitive experience

In an experimental study, the informativeness of verbal portraits obtained by the free verbalization method in studies of the perceived quality of complex acoustic events was analyzed. A procedure is proposed for selecting the most significant characteristics of a perceived event in order to reduce their number in a verbal portrait. Two series of experiments were carried out: in the first series, participants identified an acoustic event by its full verbal portrait, and in the second they were offered a shortened verbal portrait. The results showed the absence of significant differences in the identification of acoustic events obtained in the first and second series of the experiment. It is concluded that the developed procedure can be applied to the tasks of transmitting information about the significant characteristics of an individual’s cognitive experience. It is concluded that the developed procedure can be applied to the tasks of transmitting information about the significant characteristics of an individual’s cognitive experience.