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RESEARCH PRODUCT
Evidence for a spatial bias in the perception of sequences of brief tones
Massimo GrassiDavide RocchessoGuillaume Lemaitresubject
AdultMaleAcoustic Stimulation; Adult; Audiometry Pure-Tone; Dichotic Listening Tests; Female; Humans; Male; Pattern Recognition Physiological; Psychoacoustics; Time Factors; Young Adult; Pitch Perception; Time Perception; Acoustics and Ultrasonics; Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous); Medicine (all)Time FactorsAcoustics and UltrasonicsTime FactorSpeech recognitionAcousticsmedia_common.quotation_subjectspatial biasAcoustics and UltrasonicMotion (physics)Dichotic Listening TestsDichotic Listening TestTone (musical instrument)Young AdultPsychoacousticArts and Humanities (miscellaneous)Dislocation (syntax)PerceptionHumansspatial bias; temporal dislocationPsychoacousticstemporal dislocationPitch PerceptionMathematicsmedia_commonSequenceSettore INF/01 - InformaticaDichotic listeningMedicine (all)Time perceptionAcoustic StimulationPattern Recognition PhysiologicalTime PerceptionAudiometry Pure-ToneFemalePsychoacousticsHumandescription
Listeners are unable to report the physical order of particular sequences of brief tones. This phenomenon of temporal dislocation depends on tone durations and frequencies. The current study empirically shows that it also depends on the spatial location of the tones. Dichotically testing a three-tone sequence showed that the central tone tends to be reported as the first or the last element when it is perceived as part of a left-to-right motion. Since the central-tone dislocation does not occur for right-to-left sequences of the same tones, this indicates that there is a spatial bias in the perception of sequences. © 2013 Acoustical Society of America.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
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| 2013-01-01 |