Action toward sound sources enhances auditory spatial confidence: on the metacognitive consequences of reaching to sounds.

ABSTRACT: Each perceptual process is accompanied with an evaluation regarding the reliability of what we are perceiving. The close connection between confidence in perceptual judgments and planning of actions has been documented in studies investigating visual perception. Here, we extend this investigation to auditory perception by focusing on spatial hearing, in which the interpretation of auditory cues can often present uncertainties. We asked if confidence in perceived sound position changes when we interact with the sound source by planning a sound-directed motor action (reaching) vs. a verbal response (naming). We tested 30 participants in a sound localization task in which they were both asked to localize sound sources by reaching them or by naming the labels above them in a within-participant

SUBMITTER: Valzolgher C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11743395 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature