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Perceptual bias for rising tones

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  • John G. Neuhoff

    (Lafayette College)

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An approaching sound source creates a pattern of rising intensity that can specify the arrival time of the source1,2,3. Here we found that listeners reliably overestimated the change in level of rising level tones relative to equivalent falling level tones. In a natural environment this overestimation could provide a selective advantage, because rising intensity can signal movement of the source towards an organism. The bias was stronger at higher levels, suggesting that rising loudness is even more critical when a sound source is either close or loud. These results suggest a privileged status of dynamic rising loudness for harmonic tones and an asymmetry in the neural coding of harmonic dynamic intensity change.

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  • John G. Neuhoff, 1998. "Perceptual bias for rising tones," Nature, Nature, vol. 395(6698), pages 123-124, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:395:y:1998:i:6698:d:10.1038_25862
    DOI: 10.1038/25862
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    1. Ben Schouten & Alex Davila & Karl Verfaillie, 2013. "Further Explorations of the Facing Bias in Biological Motion Perception: Perspective Cues, Observer Sex, and Response Times," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 8(2), pages 1-6, February.
    2. Yousri Marzouki & Fatimah Salem Aldossari & Giuseppe A. Veltri, 2021. "Understanding the buffering effect of social media use on anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 8(1), pages 1-10, December.
    3. Michel de Lara, 2022. "Rationally Biased Learning," Working Papers hal-01581982, HAL.
    4. Molly J Henry & J Devin McAuley, 2013. "Perceptual Distortions in Pitch and Time Reveal Active Prediction and Support for an Auditory Pitch-Motion Hypothesis," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 8(8), pages 1-8, August.

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