Probably the earliest example of an ecological approach to audition. Vanderveer describes the result of a protocol study in which people identified events from the sounds they made.

Vicario, G. B. "Some Observations in the Auditory Field." In Organization and Representation in Perception, edited by J. Beck. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1982.

Vicario identifies dependency relations, effects of context (embedded figures), the concept of an auditory field, and completion phenomena in the auditory mode of perception.