Auditory environmental context affects visual distance perception
- Etchemendy, Pablo Esteban
- Abregú, Ezequiel Lucas
- Calcagno, Esteban
- Eguia, Manuel Camilo
- Vechiatti, Nilda
- Iasi, Federico
- Vergara, Ramiro Oscar
DOIAbstract
In this article, we show that visual distance perception (VDP) is influenced by the auditory environmental context through reverberation-related cues. We performed two VDP experiments in two dark rooms with extremely different reverberation times: an anechoic chamber and a reverberant room. Subjects assigned to the reverberant room perceived the targets farther than subjects assigned to the anechoic chamber. Also, we found a positive correlation between the maximum perceived distance and the auditorily perceived room size. We next performed a second experiment in which the same subjects of Experiment 1 were interchanged between rooms. We found that subjects preserved the responses from the previous experiment provided they were compatible w...
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