Asymmetric visual capture of virtual sound sources in the distance dimension.

ABSTRACT: Visual capture describes the tendency of a sound to be mislocalized to the location of a plausible visual target. This effect, also known as the ventriloquist effect, has been extensively studied in humans, but primarily for mismatches in the angular direction between auditory and visual targets. Here, visual capture was examined in the distance dimension using a single visual target (an un-energized loudspeaker) and invisible virtual sound sources presented over headphones. The sound sources were synthesized from binaural impulse-response measurements at distances ranging from 1 to 5 m (0.25 m steps) in the semi-reverberant room (7.7 × 4.2 × 2.7 m³) in which the experiment was conducted. Listeners (n = 11) were asked whether or not the auditory target appeared to be at t

SUBMITTER: Zahorik P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9475063 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature