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Andrew J. Kolarik, Brian C. J. Moore, Pavel Zahorik, Silvia Cirstea + 1 more
'Shahina Pardhan'] Auditory distance perception plays a major role in spatial awareness, enabling location of objects and avoidance of obstacles in the environment. However, it remains under-researched relative to studies of the directional aspect of sound localization. This review focuses on the following four aspects…
Peter Keating, Andrew J. King
Under normal hearing conditions, comparisons of the sounds reaching each ear are critical for accurate sound localization. Asymmetric hearing loss should therefore degrade spatial hearing and has become an important experimental tool for probing the plasticity of the auditory system, both during development and…
Santani Teng, Verena Sommer, Dimitrios Pantazis, Aude Oliva
Perceiving the geometry of surrounding space is a multisensory process, crucial to contextualizing object perception and guiding navigation behavior. Auditory cues are informative about the shape and extent of large-scale environments: humans can make judgments about surrounding spaces from reverberation cues. However…
Patrice Voss
Valuable insights into the role played by visual experience in shaping spatial representations can be gained by studying the effects of visual deprivation on the remaining sensory modalities. For instance, it has long been debated how spatial hearing evolves in the absence of visual input. While several anecdotal…
Piotr Majdak, Robert Baumgartner, Claudia Jenny
Human listeners need to permanently interact with their threedimensional (3-D) environment. To this end, they require efficient perceptual mechanisms to form a sufficiently accurate 3-D auditory space. In this chapter, we discuss the formation of the 3-D auditory space from various perspectives. The aim is to show the…
Andrew J. King
The visual and auditory systems frequently work together to facilitate the identification and localization of objects and events in the external world. Experience plays a critical role in establishing and maintaining congruent visual-auditory associations, so that the different sensory cues associated with targets that…
Viola G Matten, Rüdiger Stirnberg, Steven van de Par, Stephan D Ewert + 1 more
In complex acoustic environments, sound localization involves the integration of numerous interrelated auditory and cognitive cues, making it challenging to understand their relationship to brain activity. Here, we use virtual acoustics to probe the brain’s response to auditory distance cues in a realistic environment.…
Laure Fivel, Jérôme Brunelin, Gaëlle Leroux, Frédéric Haesebaert + 1 more
Auditory externalization, the perception of a sound source as located outside the head, is essential for spatial hearing and auditory scene analysis. However, its neural correlates remain poorly understood. This study investigated differences in brain activation elicited by externalized versus internalized sound…
Milind N. Kunchur
| SECTION | PAGE | | --- | --- | | ABSTRACT | 1 | | 1 INTRODUCTION | 1 | | GLOSSARY OF ABBREVIATIONS AND SYMBOLS | 2 | | 2 PHYSIOLOGY OF THE EAR | 3 | | 2.1 External and middle ear | 3 | | 2.2 Cochlea | 3 | | 2.3 Frequency range and hearing loss | 5 | | 2.4 Discrimination of pitch, level, and rhythm | 6 | | 2.5…
Isabelle Viaud-Delmon, Olivier Warusfel
Spatial memory is mainly studied through the visual sensory modality: navigation tasks in humans rarely integrate dynamic and spatial auditory information. In order to study how a spatial scene can be memorized on the basis of auditory and idiothetic cues only, we constructed an auditory equivalent of the Morris water…
Zhiyuan Zhu, Shengdong Zhang, Wenxiang Guo, Changhao Pan + 1 more
With the rapid development of spatial audio technologies today, applications in AR, VR, and other scenarios have garnered extensive attention. Unlike traditional mono sound, spatial audio offers a more realistic and immersive auditory experience. Despite notable progress in the field, there remains a lack of…
Monica Gori, Tiziana Vercillo, Giulio Sandini, David Burr
Our recent studies suggest that congenitally blind adults have severely impaired thresholds in an auditory spatial bisection task, pointing to the importance of vision in constructing complex auditory spatial maps ([12]). To explore strategies that may improve the auditory spatial sense in visually impaired people, we…
Fulvio Missoni, Katarina Poole, Lorenzo Picinali, Andrea Canessa
Spatial hearing, the brain's ability to use auditory cues to identify the origin of sounds, is crucial for everyday listening. While simplified paradigms have advanced the understanding of spatial hearing, their lack of ecological validity limits their applicability to real-life conditions. This study aims to address…
Robert Baumgartner, Piotr Majdak
Under natural listening conditions, humans perceptually link sounds with sound sources in their environment. This so-called auditory externalization is often distorted when sound is produced via hearing devices such as headphones or hearing aids, resulting in sources being perceptually localized inside the head.…
Hyunsung Cho, A.I. Wang, Divya Kartik, E. Xie + 2 more
Humans localize sound in the horizontal plane using two primary binaural cues: interaural time difference (ITD) and interaural level difference (ILD). ITD refers to the difference between the times that sounds reach the two ears. By comparing the time of the sound signal's arrival at each ear, the human auditory system…
Elena Aggius-Vella, Monica Gori, Claudio Campus, Stefania Petri + 2 more
Spatial representation is a crucial skill for everyday interaction with the environment. Different factors seem to influence spatial perception, such as body movements and vision. However, it is still unknown if motor impairment affects the building of simple spatial perception. To investigate this point, we tested…
Lise Hobeika, Marine Taffou, Thibaut Carpentier, Olivier Warusfel + 1 more
Logarithmically distributed auditory distances provides an apt granularity of PPS Measuring expectation helps to interpret behavioral impact of audiotactile integration Tactile RTs follows a logarithmic decrease due to audiotactile integration Peripersonal space is better characterized and quantified with this…
Stefan Riedel, Matthias Frank, Franz Zotter
Listener envelopment refers to the sensation of being surrounded by sound, either by multiple direct sound events or by a diffuse reverberant sound field. More recently, a specific attribute for the sensation of being covered by sound from elevated directions has been proposed by Sazdov et al. and was termed listener…
V. Gaveau, A. Coudert, R. Salemme, E. Koun + 4 more
In everyday life, localizing a sound source in free-field entails more than the sole extraction of monaural and binaural auditory cues to define its location in the three-dimensions (azimuth, elevation and distance). In spatial hearing, we also take into account all the available visual information (e.g., cues to sound…