Humans represent sounds to others and receive information about sounds from others using onomatopoeia. Such representation is useful for obtaining and reporting the acoustic features and impressions of actual sounds without having to hear or emit them. But how accurately can we obtain such sound information from onomatopoeic representations? To examine the validity and applicability of using ve...

In this preliminary report, we present the results from our investigation of 34 tinnitus patients for tinnitus suppression with frequency-specific sound stimuli within the auditory spectrum. Of this number, 22 (64.7%) experienced suppression, 5 (14.7%) had partial suppression, and 7 (20.6%) were nonresponders. Suppression of peripheral tinnitus may result when mechanosensitive outer hair cells ...

Cats were trained to avoid a shock by moving from one to the other compartment of a double grill box at the onset of a compound signal which consisted of a soft low tone and a bright flashing light. After training on the compound signal unreinforced test trials were givcn on the tone alone and the light alone. By this procedure the relative potency of sound and light was established for normal ...

A novel algorithm for frequency lowering in music was developed and experimentally tested in hearing-impaired listeners. Harmonic frequency lowering (HFL) combines frequency transposition and frequency compression to preserve the harmonic content of music stimuli. Listeners were asked to make judgments regarding detail and sound quality in music stimuli. Stimuli were presented under different s...

Studies of sound symbolism have shown that people can associate sound and meaning in consistent ways when presented with maximally contrastive stimulus pairs of nonwords such as bouba/kiki (rounded/sharp) or mil/mal (small/big). Recent work has shown the effect extends to antonymic words from natural languages and has proposed a role for shared cross-modal correspondences in biasing formto-mean...

Apart from inducing a high sense of presence, creating a sensation of self-motion is often a key issue of many Virtual Reality applications. However, self-motion perception (vection) has been primarily investigated for visual stimuli. This study explored the possibility of inducing vection by realistic auditory stimuli. Furthermore, influence of various audio design parameters on auditoryinduce...

The similarity of musical scales and consonance judgments across human populations has no generally accepted explanation. Here we present evidence that these aspects of auditory perception arise from the statistical structure of naturally occurring periodic sound stimuli. An analysis of speech sounds, the principal source of periodic sound stimuli in the human acoustical environment, shows that...

This study investigates the role of emotional mediation in sound-color cross-modal correspondence, using two complementary sets of validated stimuli: the Montreal Affective Voices (MAV; Belin et al., 2008), and Musical Emotional Bursts (MEB; Paquette et al., 2013). These stimuli were presented to participants for color associations, emotional associations, and rated for arousal and valence. The...

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Abstract – The representation of the peripersonal space is remapped by body action such as integrating tactile stimuli from the body’s surface with multisensory stimuli presented within a limited distance from the body. Previous study showed that boundaries of the peipersonal space extend while walking with listening to a looming sound, but it is unclear whether the boundaries change when a sen...