Re: [AUDITORY] Help finding old localization reference

[Owen Brimijoin <00000067cae902a2-dmarc-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Like Tom and Bill I am in the Wallach fan club, for sure. He did a number of influential studies on the integration of motion and spatial hearing, but I’m not entirely certain he did the particular study you are describing. I think that may have actually been Arnoult, drawing on work by Clark (1949) on the audiogyral illusion which used actual rotation of the listener instead of the illusory rotation you are describing: 

Localization of sound during rotation of the visual environment

Malcolm D Arnoult

The American journal of psychology 65 (1), 48-58, 1952

Is this the one? He had an earlier one as well that I can’t find using my mobile phone atm. 

Best,

Owen. 

W. Owen Brimijoin

Perceptual Research Scientist

Facebook Reality Labs

 

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From: AUDITORY - Research in Auditory Perception <auditory@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of William Yost <william.yost@xxxxxxx>
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I am pretty sure the article is by Hans Wallach, this paradigm involving rotation vection is described at the end of the paper.

Wallach, H. (1940). “The role of head movements and vistibular and visual cues in sound localization,” J. Exp. Psycho.l 27, 339–368. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/h0054629.

 

 

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From: AUDITORY - Research in Auditory Perception <AUDITORY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Smith, Nicholas A.
Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2019 11:56 AM
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I was hoping to get a pointer to reference to an old auditory localization study that I remember hearing about in an undergrad lecture (my impression was that it was an old study, back when I was an undergrad in the 1990’s), but has stuck with me all these year because it’s clever and cool. 

 

As I remember it, subjects were seat on a stool within a large cylinder. The walls of the cylinder were made of acoustically transparent canvas or burlap, on which vertical black and white stripes were painted. There was a loudspeaker directly in front of them, but outside the cylinder so it could be heard but not seen. The cylinder rotated slowly to induce the illusion of motion (subjects felt that they themselves were rotating within a stationary cylinder). When asked where the sound was coming from, they indicated that it was directly above, the only location in which interaural intensity and timing cues would be constant, if they were indeed rotating. 

 

Assuming I didn’t imagine this study, I’d love to talk about this demonstration with my students, but I need more to go on than my sketchy memories.

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Nick  

 

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