ArticleCognitive research: principles and implications2016
Looming sounds are perceived as faster than receding sounds.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Do sounds near the hand facilitate tactile reaction times? Four experiments and a meta-analysis provide mixed support and suggest a small effect size.Experimental brain research · 2020Pooled it
- Threat-related corticocortical connectivity elicited by rapid auditory looms.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The cost of simplicity: comparing sounds in the lab vs. everyday environment.Psychological research · 2025Article
- Comparison of peripersonal space in front and rear spaces.Experimental brain research · 2024Article
- Cortical signatures of auditory looming bias show cue-specific adaptation between newborns and young adults.Communications psychology · 2024Article
- Age and Auditory Spatial Perception in Humans: Review of Behavioral Findings and Suggestions for Future Research.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Review
- Neural Mechanisms Underlying the Auditory Looming Bias.Auditory perception & cognition · 2021Article
- Expansion of space for visuotactile interaction during visually induced self-motion.Experimental brain research · 2021Article
- Proximal Binaural Sound Can Induce Subjective Frisson.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Frontal cortex selectively overrides auditory processing to bias perception for looming sonic motion.Brain research · 2020Article
- Cross-modal size-contrast illusion: Acoustic increases in intensity and bandwidth modulate haptic representation of object size.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Asymmetries in behavioral and neural responses to spectral cues demonstrate the generality of auditory looming bias.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2017Article
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Abstract
Each year thousands of people are killed by looming motor vehicles. Throughout our evolutionary history looming objects have posed a threat to survival and perceptual systems have evolved unique solutions to confront these environmental challenges. Vision provides an accurate representation of time-to-contact with a looming object and usually allows us to interact successfully with the object if required. However, audition functions as a warning system and yields an anticipatory representation of arrival time, indicating that the object has arrived when it is still some distance away. The bias provides a temporal margin of safety that allows more time to initiate defensive actions. In two studies this bias was shown to influence the perception of the speed of looming and receding sound sources. Listeners heard looming and receding sound sources and judged how fast they were moving. Listeners perceived the speed of looming sounds as faster than that of equivalent receding sounds. Listeners also showed better discrimination of the speed of looming sounds than receding sounds. Finally, close sounds were perceived as faster than distant sounds. The results suggest a prioritization of the perception of the speed of looming and receding sounds that mirrors the level of threat posed by moving objects in the environment.
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