Partial visual loss disrupts the relationship between judged room size and sound source distance

Kolarik, Andrew J.; Moore, Brian C. J.; Cirstea, Silvia; Raman, Rajiv; Gopalakrishnan, Sarika; Pardhan, Shahina

doi:10.1007/s00221-021-06235-0

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“…Therefore, a syntactical organisation in CSM must loosely follow general esthetical/cultural rules and natural/physical sonic rules. Hence, there might be at least two kinds of mechanisms to process musical sounds: one based on arbitrary or conventional musical systems and the other based on biological tendencies to use sound indexes; that is, to recognise sound sources, actions, locations, and trajectories in space (Agus et al, 2019;Hjortkjaer et al, 2018;Kolarik et al, 2022).…”

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Cross-Modal Musical Expectancy in Complex Sound Music: A Grounded Theory

Correa

2023

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Expectancy is a core mechanism for constructing affective and cognitive experiences of music. However, research on musical expectations has been largely founded upon the perception of tonal music. Therefore, it is still to be determined how this mechanism explains the cognition of sound-based acoustic and electroacoustic music, such as complex sound music (CSM). Additionally, the dominant methodologies have consisted of well-controlled experimental designs with low ecological validity that have overlooked the listening experience as described by the listeners. This paper presents results concerning musical expectancy from a qualitative research project that investigated the listening experiences of 15 participants accustomed to CSM listening. Corbin and Strauss’ (2015) grounded theory was used to triangulate data from interviews along with musical analyses of the pieces chosen by the participants to describe their listening experiences. Cross-modal musical expectancy (CMME) emerged from the data as a subcategory that explained prediction through the interaction of multimodal elements beyond just the acoustic properties of music. The results led to hypothesise that multimodal information coming from sounds, performance gestures, and indexical, iconic, and conceptual associations re-enact cross-modal schemata and episodic memories where real and imagined sounds, objects, actions, and narratives interrelate to give rise to CMME processes. This construct emphasises the effect of CSM’s subversive acoustic features and performance practices on the listening experience. Further, it reveals the multiplicity of factors involved in musical expectancy, such as cultural values, subjective musical and non-musical experiences, music structure, listening situation, and psychological mechanisms. Following these ideas, CMME is conceived as a grounded cognition process.

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Cross-Modal Musical Expectancy in Complex Sound Music: A Grounded Theory

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2023

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“…The first one, known as the perceptual deficit hypothesis, proposes that the lack of vision hinders the precise calibration of other sensory modalities (especially the auditory one), affecting the performance in localization tasks (Axelrod, 1959; Jones, 1975). It has been reported that the blind perform poorly in auditory spatial tasks such as estimation of source elevation (Lewald, 2002; Voss et al, 2015; Zwiers et al, 2001), spatial bisection (Gori et al, 2014), sound speed discrimination (Bertonati et al, 2021), sound motion (Cappagli, Finocchietti, et al, 2017; Finocchietti et al, 2015), relative sound distance (Cappagli, Cocchi, & Gori, 2017), and absolute distance judgments (Kolarik, Moore, et al, 2021; Kolarik, Pardhan, et al, 2017; Macé et al, 2012; Wanet & Veraart, 1985). On the other hand, the sensory compensation hypothesis proposes that to compensate for visual loss, blind individuals develop exceptional perceptual abilities using their remaining sensory modalities (Miller, 1992).…”

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Auditory distance perception by blind and sighted participants for both within- and beyond-reach sources.

Lombera¹,

Etchemendy²,

Spiousas³

et al. 2022

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Perfor

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This study aimed to test the hypothesis that associates blindness with a reduced ability to judge the absolute distance from sound sources. Our working hypotheses were the following: (a) Within reach, a blind subject will be able to make up for the lack of vision using proprioceptive information to calibrate the acoustic distance perception cues. (b) As the source becomes unreachable, blind people will show greater biases since, out of reach, the proposed mechanism for calibration could not be used. To approach these topics, we carried out a series of auditory distance experiments in which we asked sighted and blind participants to report their distance estimates verbally or by reaching the sound source. Within-reach results showed that blind participants performed better than (reaching) or similar to (verbal report) the sighted. The verbal report results showed similar biases between both groups. However, blind participants had more compressive responses than the sighted. Furthermore, blind participants showed more biased responses in the far field than in the peripersonal space, while sighted participants showed similar biases regardless of distance. Our results strongly suggest that the blind can calibrate their distance estimations through the use of proprioceptive spatial information. Public Significance StatementThis study demonstrated that blind participants can calibrate their auditory distance estimations with tactile-proprioceptive spatial information.

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“…Sensory disabilities delay the whole development process, causing, specifically, sensorimotor control deficits in segmental coordination and thus affecting spatial performance efficacy and accuracy [ 9 , 10 , 11 ]. In particular, it has been shown that straight-ahead auditory targets facilitate localization, while precision is higher in the central rather than lateral direction in visually impaired subjects [ 12 , 13 ]. This may depend on the specific difficulty separating head and trunk movements, especially during rotation around the vertical axis, as well as disability-related upper body tension and stiffness [ 14 , 15 ].…”

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Reactive Agility and Pitching Performance Improvement in Visually Impaired Competitive Italian Baseball Players: An Innovative Training and Evaluation Proposal

Carretti

Bianco

Sgambati

et al. 2023

IJERPH

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Visual input significantly affects kinesthesis skills and, hence, visually impaired individuals show less developed sensorimotor control, especially in an unfamiliar outdoor environment. Regular blind baseball practice can counteract such a deficit but, given the complex kinetic chain model required, a targeted workout proposal is needed to improve the main athletic gesture performance. On these premises, we investigated, for the first time, the running and pitching performance of a competitive Italian blind baseball team through quantitative tools and parameters such as Libra Easytech sensorized proprioceptive board, goniometric active range of motion, chronometric speed, and pitching linear length. Moreover, the perceived physical exertion was assessed by the Borg CR10 scale. Consequently, an adapted athletic training protocol was designed and tested on the field during the competitive season, with the aim to strengthen sport specific-gesture coordination and efficacy as well as to prevent injuries. Quantitative assessments showed an improvement in ankle stability index, bilateral upper limb and hip mobility, reactive agility, running braking phase control during second base approaching, and auditory target-related pitching accuracy along with a decrease in perceived physical exertion. This protocol might therefore represent an effective and easily reproducible training and evaluation approach to tailor management of visually impaired baseball players, and safely improve their athletic performance under the supervision of an adapted exercise specialist.

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Partial visual loss disrupts the relationship between judged room size and sound source distance

Cited by 8 publications

References 72 publications

Cross-Modal Musical Expectancy in Complex Sound Music: A Grounded Theory

Cross-Modal Musical Expectancy in Complex Sound Music: A Grounded Theory

Auditory distance perception by blind and sighted participants for both within- and beyond-reach sources.

Reactive Agility and Pitching Performance Improvement in Visually Impaired Competitive Italian Baseball Players: An Innovative Training and Evaluation Proposal

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