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[AUDITORY] Research topic on the role of body movement in auditory perception



Hi All,

 

I just wanted to call attention to a research topic in Frontiers related to auditory perception and body movement. Details are below, and please consider submitting if you are working on related areas. 

 

Thanks!

Erol

 

Your abstract or manuscript can be submitted here: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/33687

 

Title: Understanding the role of head and body movement when navigating a complex auditory scene

 

Editors: Erol Ozmeral, Bill Yost, Erick Gallun, Nate Higgins, and Torben Pastore

 

More About this Research Topic

In complex listening situations, speech understanding can be highly challenging due to multiple sound sources from multiple locations, background noise, and reverberation. Changes in head and body position or focus of eye gaze can provide additional cues to understanding or directing a conversation. For example, recognizable head and eye gestures can convey listener understanding prior to a talker completing a sentence or for a talker to emphasize a point. Such body and head movements also play a major role in the peripheral acoustic cues available to the listener, such as the binaural and spectral changes critical to sound source localization and segregation. Despite our comprehensive understanding of many of these peripheral cues in isolation, traditional laboratory settings often overlook the influences of head and body movements on auditory perception and speech communication in natural environments.

 

The scope of this research topic is intended to broadly capture the impact that head, body, and eye movements have on everyday communication, sound perception, and navigation. This collection of research is fundamental to understanding speech communication and auditory perception as it exists outside the laboratory, and knowledge in this area should progress innovation and development in hearing aids, virtual reality, and other clinical and consumer technology sectors that integrate across multiple sensory domains to provide ecologically centered user experiences.

 

Erol J. Ozmeral, Ph.D

Research Associate Professor

Dept Communication Sciences and Disorders

University of South Florida

Tampa campus

Office: 813-974-4148

Cell: 617-817-4581

Email: eozmeral@xxxxxxx