The psychophysical phenomenon called ventriloquism effect describes a possibly occurring influence of a visual stimulus on the judgment of a sound source’s perceived position. The term minimum audible angle usually denotes the just distinguishable horizontal angular deviation between two sound sources. It depends on the direction of the sound sources relative to the listener’s head, the conside...

After repeated exposures to two successive audiovisual stimuli presented in one frequent order, participants eventually perceive a pair separated by some lag time in the same order as occurring simultaneously (lag adaptation). In contrast, we previously found that perceptual changes occurred in the opposite direction in response to tactile stimuli, conforming to bayesian integration theory (bay...

The goal of this study was to determine whether selected sound effects that are spectrally limited to an octave band width could be used as alternative stimuli to pure tones when testing children and other special populations. The uniqueness of octave-band sound effects is that they retain the natural character of everyday sounds while providing frequency-specific information about hearing sens...

recent studies in affective computing are focused on sensing human cognitive context using biosignals. in this study, electrooculography (eog) was utilized to investigate memory recall accessibility via eye movement patterns. 12 subjects were participated in our experiment wherein pictures from four categories were presented. each category contained nine pictures of which three were presented t...

Audio recordings are often used to improve ecological validity of stimuli for laboratory research on effects of noise. In this paper a method is proposed for composing realistic environmental sound stimuli with (1) specified overall spectrum and (2) specified statistical distribution of sound event durations and semantic categories. The combination is addressed as a mixed integer linear program...

Sound symbolism refers to a non-arbitrary relationship between linguistic sounds and meanings. Sound symbolism has been discussed in relation to the ontogenesis of language. Our previous ERP study revealed that preverbal infants who are just about to start word learning show the N400 response to sound symbolically mismatched speech sound-visual shape pairs, suggesting that the infants detected ...

Sound has a multitude of applications in areas ranging from engineering, architecture, entertainment, to environmental noise control. Sound also plays a crucial role in immersive virtual environments with studies showing it can improve the sense of presence and fidelity in training, simulation, education, and entertainment. This makes it important to simulate sound in a perceptuallyaccurate way...