Hands help hearing: Facilitatory audiotactile interaction at low sound-intensity levels

Martin Schürmann, Gina Caetano, Veikko Jousmäki, Riitta Hari

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    Abstrakti

    Auditory and vibrotactile stimuli share similar temporal patterns. A psychophysical experiment was performed to test whether this similarity would lead into an intermodal bias in perception of sound intensity. Nine normal-hearing subjects performed a loudness-matching task of faint tones, adjusting the probe tone to sound equally loud as a reference tone. The task was performed both when the subjects were touching and when they were not touching a tube that vibrated simultaneously with the probe tone. The subjects chose on average 12% lower intensities (p<0.01) for the probe tone when they touched the tube, suggesting facilitatory interaction between auditory and tactile senses in normal-hearing subjects.
    AlkuperäiskieliEnglanti
    Sivut830-832
    JulkaisuJournal of the Acoustical Society of America
    Vuosikerta115
    Numero2
    DOI - pysyväislinkit
    TilaJulkaistu - 2004
    OKM-julkaisutyyppiA1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä

    Tutkimusalat

    • audiotactile interaction
    • auditory stimuli
    • vibrotactile stimuli

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