Judging Time-to-Passage of looming sounds: evidence for the use of distance-based information
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Resumo: | Perceptual judgments are an essential mechanism for our everyday interaction with other moving agents or events. For instance, estimation of the time remaining before an object contacts or passes us is essential to act upon or to avoid that object. Previous studies have demonstrated that participants use different cues to estimate the time to contact or the time to passage of approaching visual stimuli. Despite the considerable number of studies on the judgment of approaching auditory stimuli, not much is known about the cues that guide listeners’ performance in an auditory Time-to-Passage (TTP) task. The present study evaluates how accurately participants judge approaching white-noise stimuli in a TTP task that included variable occlusion periods (portion of the presentation time where the stimulus is not audible). Results showed that participants were able to accurately estimate TTP and their performance, in general, was weakly affected by occlusion periods. Moreover, we looked into the psychoacoustic variables provided by the stimuli and analysed how binaural cues related with the performance obtained in the psychophysical task. The binaural temporal difference seems to be the psychoacoustic cue guiding participants’ performance for lower amounts of occlusion, while the binaural loudness difference seems to be the cue guiding performance for higher amounts of occlusion. These results allowed us to explain the perceptual strategies used by participants in a TTP task (maintaining accuracy by shifting the informative cue for TTP estimation), and to demonstrate that the psychoacoustic cue guiding listeners’ performance changes according to the occlusion period. |
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Judging Time-to-Passage of looming sounds: evidence for the use of distance-based informationScience & TechnologyPerceptual judgments are an essential mechanism for our everyday interaction with other moving agents or events. For instance, estimation of the time remaining before an object contacts or passes us is essential to act upon or to avoid that object. Previous studies have demonstrated that participants use different cues to estimate the time to contact or the time to passage of approaching visual stimuli. Despite the considerable number of studies on the judgment of approaching auditory stimuli, not much is known about the cues that guide listeners’ performance in an auditory Time-to-Passage (TTP) task. The present study evaluates how accurately participants judge approaching white-noise stimuli in a TTP task that included variable occlusion periods (portion of the presentation time where the stimulus is not audible). Results showed that participants were able to accurately estimate TTP and their performance, in general, was weakly affected by occlusion periods. Moreover, we looked into the psychoacoustic variables provided by the stimuli and analysed how binaural cues related with the performance obtained in the psychophysical task. The binaural temporal difference seems to be the psychoacoustic cue guiding participants’ performance for lower amounts of occlusion, while the binaural loudness difference seems to be the cue guiding performance for higher amounts of occlusion. These results allowed us to explain the perceptual strategies used by participants in a TTP task (maintaining accuracy by shifting the informative cue for TTP estimation), and to demonstrate that the psychoacoustic cue guiding listeners’ performance changes according to the occlusion period.This study was supported by: Bial FoundationGrant 143/14 (https://www.bial.com/en/bial_foundation.11/11th_symposium.219/ fellows_preliminary_results.235/fellows_ preliminary_results.a569.html); FCT PTDC/EEAELC/112137/2009 (https://www.fct.pt/apoios/projectos/consulta/vglobal_projecto?idProjecto=112137&idElemConcurso=3628); and COMPETE: POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007043 and FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia within the Project Scope: UID/CEC/00319/2013.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionPublic Library of ScienceUniversidade do MinhoSilva, Rosa MarianaLamas, JoãoSilva, Carlos CésarCoello, YannMouta, SandraSantos, Jorge A.2017-05-222017-05-22T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/1822/45808engSilva, R.M., Lamas, J., Silva, C.C., Coello, Y., Mouta, S., & Santos, J.A. (2017). Judging Time-to-Passage of looming sounds: evidence for the use of distance-based information. PLoS ONE, 12, 1-17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.01777341932-62031932-620310.1371/journal.pone.017773428531210http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/related?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0177734info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-07-21T12:20:36Zoai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/45808Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T19:13:47.470672Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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Judging Time-to-Passage of looming sounds: evidence for the use of distance-based information |
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Judging Time-to-Passage of looming sounds: evidence for the use of distance-based information |
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Judging Time-to-Passage of looming sounds: evidence for the use of distance-based information Silva, Rosa Mariana Science & Technology |
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Judging Time-to-Passage of looming sounds: evidence for the use of distance-based information |
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Judging Time-to-Passage of looming sounds: evidence for the use of distance-based information |
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Judging Time-to-Passage of looming sounds: evidence for the use of distance-based information |
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Judging Time-to-Passage of looming sounds: evidence for the use of distance-based information |
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Judging Time-to-Passage of looming sounds: evidence for the use of distance-based information |
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Silva, Rosa Mariana |
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Silva, Rosa Mariana Lamas, João Silva, Carlos César Coello, Yann Mouta, Sandra Santos, Jorge A. |
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Lamas, João Silva, Carlos César Coello, Yann Mouta, Sandra Santos, Jorge A. |
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Universidade do Minho |
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Silva, Rosa Mariana Lamas, João Silva, Carlos César Coello, Yann Mouta, Sandra Santos, Jorge A. |
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Science & Technology |
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Science & Technology |
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Perceptual judgments are an essential mechanism for our everyday interaction with other moving agents or events. For instance, estimation of the time remaining before an object contacts or passes us is essential to act upon or to avoid that object. Previous studies have demonstrated that participants use different cues to estimate the time to contact or the time to passage of approaching visual stimuli. Despite the considerable number of studies on the judgment of approaching auditory stimuli, not much is known about the cues that guide listeners’ performance in an auditory Time-to-Passage (TTP) task. The present study evaluates how accurately participants judge approaching white-noise stimuli in a TTP task that included variable occlusion periods (portion of the presentation time where the stimulus is not audible). Results showed that participants were able to accurately estimate TTP and their performance, in general, was weakly affected by occlusion periods. Moreover, we looked into the psychoacoustic variables provided by the stimuli and analysed how binaural cues related with the performance obtained in the psychophysical task. The binaural temporal difference seems to be the psychoacoustic cue guiding participants’ performance for lower amounts of occlusion, while the binaural loudness difference seems to be the cue guiding performance for higher amounts of occlusion. These results allowed us to explain the perceptual strategies used by participants in a TTP task (maintaining accuracy by shifting the informative cue for TTP estimation), and to demonstrate that the psychoacoustic cue guiding listeners’ performance changes according to the occlusion period. |
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Silva, R.M., Lamas, J., Silva, C.C., Coello, Y., Mouta, S., & Santos, J.A. (2017). Judging Time-to-Passage of looming sounds: evidence for the use of distance-based information. PLoS ONE, 12, 1-17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0177734 1932-6203 1932-6203 10.1371/journal.pone.0177734 28531210 http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/related?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0177734 |
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