Psychoacoustic behavior of human listeners in lateralization judgments of binaural stimuli
AUTOR(ES)
Nogueira, Jurandyr Santos, Cunha, Ana Isabela Araújo, Freire, Raimundo Carlos Silvério
FONTE
Res. Biomed. Eng.
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
12/01/2017
RESUMO
Abstract Introduction The present work aims to develop statistical models for the psychoacoustic behavior of human beings in lateralization judgments of binaural acoustic stimuli, as a function of Interaural Time Delay (ITD) and Interaural Amplitude Difference (IAD) for several Sensation Levels (SL). Such models intend to contribute to a deep comprehension of the perception or recognition mechanism which permits listeners to decide whether a source of a sound is located on the right or on the left side of their medial plane. Methods Numerous lateralization judgments are accomplished through a computer controlled experiment set-up in order to investigate the transduction mechanism beneath them. The statistical treatment of the psychoacoustic data obtained has been performed by Two and Three Factors – Probit (Probability Unit) Analysis. Results The Probit Analysis makes it possible to obtain the model coefficients and to fit ‘Probit Planes and Surfaces’ to the experimental data in order to study and predict the simultaneous effects produced by ITD and IAD in the listeners’ psychoacoustic perceptions at several Sensation Levels (SL). Conclusion The approach used here is appropriate for the analysis of this kind of binary response and it also offers a simple way to obtain psychophysical responses that can be related to neurophysiological phenomena. It is argued that this fact may lead to another way to access neural information through psychoacoustic experiments, without needing invasive methods.
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