ArticleAuditory perception & cognition2021
Neural Mechanisms Underlying the Auditory Looming Bias.
Article in Auditory perception & cognition, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Approaching background sounds extend the duration of foreground auditory stimuli.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- No error on the side of safety: No representational momentum for auditory looming stimuli.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2026Article
- Threat-related corticocortical connectivity elicited by rapid auditory looms.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Exaggerated perception of change with greater sensory imprecision.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Increases versus decreases: Asymmetric effects of contrast changes during binocular rivalry modulated by awareness of perceptual switch.Journal of vision · 2025Article
- The role of spatial perception in auditory looming bias: neurobehavioral evidence from impossible ears.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Article
- Cortical signatures of auditory looming bias show cue-specific adaptation between newborns and young adults.Communications psychology · 2024Article
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Abstract
Our auditory system constantly keeps track of our environment, informing us about our surroundings and warning us of potential threats. The auditory looming bias is an early perceptual phenomenon, reflecting higher alertness of listeners to approaching auditory objects, rather than to receding ones. Experimentally, this sensation has been elicited by using both intensity-varying stimuli, as well as spectrally varying stimuli with constant intensity. Following the intensity-based approach, recent research delving into the cortical mechanisms underlying the looming bias argues for top-down signaling from the prefrontal cortex to the auditory cortex in order to prioritize approaching over receding sonic motion. We here test the generalizability of that finding to spectrally induced looms by re-analyzing previously published data. Our results indicate the promoted top-down projection but at time points slightly preceding the motion onset and thus considered to reflect a bias driven by anticipation. At time points following the motion onset, our findings show a bottom-up bias along the dorsal auditory pathway directed toward the prefrontal cortex.
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