Auditory events describe the subjective perception, when listening to a certain sound situation.
Focus of these investigations is the relationship between the characteristics of a physical sound field and the corresponding perception of listeners.
From this relationship conclusions can be drawn about the processing methods of the human auditory system.
Aspects of auditory event investigations can be: The sound field is described by physical quantities, while auditory events are described by quantities of psychoacoustical perception.
Mostly there is no simple or proportional relationship between sound field characteristics and auditory events.