Effects of Sound on the Tactile Perception of Roughness in Peri-Head Space

2011 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 471-483 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiro Gyoba ◽  
Yuika Suzuki
Keyword(s):  
White Noise ◽  
Sound Source ◽  
Similar Pattern ◽  
Tactile Perception ◽  
Auditory Stimuli ◽  
Auditory Information ◽  
Head Space ◽  
Tactile Stimuli ◽  
Tactile Roughness ◽  
Roughness Discrimination

AbstractThe aim of this study is to investigate whether or not spatial congruency between tactile and auditory stimuli would influence the tactile roughness discrimination of stimuli presented to the fingers or cheeks. In the experiment, when abrasive films were passively presented to the participants, white noise bursts were simultaneously presented from the same or different side, either near or far from the head. The results showed that when white noise was presented from the same side as the tactile stimuli, especially from near the head, the discrimination sensitivity on the cheeks was higher than when sound was absent or presented from a different side. A similar pattern was observed in discrimination by the fingers but it was not significant. The roughness discrimination by the fingers was also influenced by the presentation of sound close to the head, but significant differences between conditions with and without sounds were observed at the decisional level. Thus, the spatial congruency between tactile and auditory information selectively modulated the roughness sensitivity of the skin on the cheek, especially when the sound source was close to the head.

scholarly journals Stimulus salience determines defensive behaviors elicited by aversively conditioned serial compound auditory stimuli

eLife ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Hersman ◽  
David Allen ◽  
Mariko Hashimoto ◽  
Salvador Ignacio Brito ◽  
Todd E Anthony
Keyword(s):  
White Noise ◽  
Compound Stimulus ◽  
Auditory Stimuli ◽  
Sensory Stimuli ◽  
Serial Compound ◽  
Temporal Relationships ◽  
The Us ◽  
Stimulus Salience ◽  
Primary Determinant ◽  
Conditioned Responses

Assessing the imminence of threatening events using environmental cues enables proactive engagement of appropriate avoidance responses. The neural processes employed to anticipate event occurrence depend upon which cue properties are used to formulate predictions. In serial compound stimulus (SCS) conditioning in mice, repeated presentations of sequential tone (CS1) and white noise (CS2) auditory stimuli immediately prior to an aversive event (US) produces freezing and flight responses to CS1 and CS2, respectively (Fadok et al., 2017). Recent work reported that these responses reflect learned temporal relationships of CS1 and CS2 to the US (Dong et al., 2019). However, we find that frequency and sound pressure levels, not temporal proximity to the US, are the key factors underlying SCS-driven conditioned responses. Moreover, white noise elicits greater physiological and behavioral responses than tones even prior to conditioning. Thus, stimulus salience is the primary determinant of behavior in the SCS paradigm, and represents a potential confound in experiments utilizing multiple sensory stimuli.

Causal Uncertainty and Contextual Cues in the Recognition of Environmental Sounds

1988 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 247-251
Author(s):  
R. Timothy Mullins
Keyword(s):  
Auditory Stimuli ◽  
Auditory Information ◽  
Contextual Cues ◽  
Environmental Sounds ◽  
Causal Uncertainty ◽  
Natural Settings ◽  
Causal Event

Previous research has supported the hypothesis that the recognition of environmental sounds is complicated by uncertainty caused by the number of potential causes of that sound. In natural settings, contextual cues often help to specify the source of ambiguous sounds. This proposes the question of whether contextual cues can overpower auditory information to establish causal certainty of otherwise ambiguous environmental sounds. A study was conducted to examine this possibility. The results showed that contextual cues could have powerful effects on the judgement of the causal event of auditory stimuli. This result could have implications for tasks which are dependent on discrimination of auditory events. In particular, if a discrimination between two auditory events is critical, the effects of auditory context suggest that two or more possible alternatives might be indistinguishable in context and should be isolated for purposes of contrast.

The role of attention in auditory information processing as revealed by event-related potentials and other brain measures of cognitive function

1990 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Risto Näätänen
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Processing ◽  
Event Related Potentials ◽  
Event Related Potential ◽  
Auditory Stimuli ◽  
Stimulus Selection ◽  
Auditory Information ◽  
Attention Switching ◽  
Related Potentials ◽  
Physical Features

AbstractThis article examines the role of attention and automaticity in auditory processing as revealed by event-related potential (ERP) research. An ERP component called the mismatch negativity, generated by the brain's automatic response to changes in repetitive auditory input, reveals that physical features of auditory stimuli are fully processed whether or not they are attended. It also suggests that there exist precise neuronal representations of the physical features of recent auditory stimuli, perhaps the traces underlying acoustic sensory (“echoic”) memory. A mechanism of passive attention switching in response to changes in repetitive input is also implicated.Conscious perception of discrete acoustic stimuli might be mediated by some of the mechanisms underlying another ERP component (NI), one sensitive to stimulus onset and offset. Frequent passive attentional shifts might accountforthe effect cognitive psychologists describe as “the breakthrough of the unattended” (Broadbent 1982), that is, that even unattended stimuli may be semantically processed, without assuming automatic semantic processing or late selection in selective attention.The processing negativity supports the early-selection theory and may arise from a mechanism for selectively attending to stimuli defined by certain features. This stimulus selection occurs in the form ofa matching process in which each input is compared with the “attentional trace,” a voluntarily maintained representation of the task-relevant features of the stimulus to be attended. The attentional mechanism described might underlie the stimulus-set mode of attention proposed by Broadbent. Finally, a model of automatic and attentional processing in audition is proposed that is based mainly on the aforementioned ERP components and some other physiological measures.

Selective effects of auditory stimuli on tactile roughness perception

2008 ◽  
Vol 1242 ◽  
pp. 87-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuika Suzuki ◽  
Jiro Gyoba ◽  
Shuichi Sakamoto
Keyword(s):  
Auditory Stimuli ◽  
Tactile Roughness ◽  
Roughness Perception ◽  
Selective Effects

Patterns of Perceptual-Motor Dysfunction in Children: A Factor Analytic Study

1965 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 335-368 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Jean Ayres
Keyword(s):  
Motor Planning ◽  
Tactile Perception ◽  
The Body ◽  
Motor Dysfunction ◽  
Defensive Responses ◽  
Tactile Defensiveness ◽  
Factor Analytic Study ◽  
Tactile Stimuli ◽  
Developmental Apraxia ◽  
Two Sides

Analysis of test scores made by 100 children with and 50 without suspected perceptual deficits lead to hypothesizing five syndromes characteristic of dysfunction: (a) developmental apraxia, distinguished by deficits in motor planning, tactile perception and finger identification; (b) tactile, kinesthetic and visual perceptual dysfunction in form and position in space; (c) tactile defensiveness, demonstrated by hyperactive-distractible behavior, faulty tactile perception and defensive responses to tactile stimuli; (d) deficit of integration of the two sides of the body, identified by difficulty in right-left discrimination, avoidance in crossing the mid-line, and incoordinate bilateral hand movements; (e) deficit of visual figure-ground discrimination.

Acuity of Sound Localisation: A Topography of Auditory Space. II. Pinna Cues Absent

Perception ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 601-617 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon R Oldfield ◽  
Simon P A Parker
Keyword(s):  
White Noise ◽  
Sound Source ◽  
Normal Hearing ◽  
Auditory Space ◽  
Sound Localisation ◽  
Access Hole ◽  
The Absolute

The acuity of azimuth and elevation discrimination was measured under conditions in which the cues to localisation provided by the pinnae were removed. Four subjects localised a sound source (white noise through a speaker) which varied in position over a range of elevations (-40° to +40°) and azimuths (0° to 180°), at 10° intervals, on the left side of the head. Pinna cues were removed by the insertion of individually cast moulds in both pinnae. Each mould had an access hole to the auditory canal. The absolute and algebraic, azimuth and elevation errors were measured for all subjects at each position of the source. The variability of azimuth and elevation error was also computed. The performance of the subjects was compared to their performance under normal hearing conditions. Insertion of the pinnae moulds was found to increase substantially elevation error and the number of front/back reversals. The importance of the cues provided by the pinnae in these discriminations was thus confirmed. However, the increase in elevation error did not result in a corresponding increase in azimuth error. These findings provide support for the proposition that azimuth and elevation discrimination are coded independently.

scholarly journals Saccades create similar mislocalizations in visual and auditory space

2016 ◽  
Vol 115 (4) ◽  
pp. 2237-2245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah M. Krüger ◽  
Thérèse Collins ◽  
Bernhard Englitz ◽  
Patrick Cavanagh
Keyword(s):  
Apparent Motion ◽  
Sound Source ◽  
Perception And Action ◽  
Auditory Stimuli ◽  
Auditory Space ◽  
Do So ◽  
Location Coding

Orienting our eyes to a light, a sound, or a touch occurs effortlessly, despite the fact that sound and touch have to be converted from head- and body-based coordinates to eye-based coordinates to do so. We asked whether the oculomotor representation is also used for localization of sounds even when there is no saccade to the sound source. To address this, we examined whether saccades introduced similar errors of localization judgments for both visual and auditory stimuli. Sixteen subjects indicated the direction of a visual or auditory apparent motion seen or heard between two targets presented either during fixation or straddling a saccade. Compared with the fixation baseline, saccades introduced errors in direction judgments for both visual and auditory stimuli: in both cases, apparent motion judgments were biased in direction of the saccade. These saccade-induced effects across modalities give rise to the possibility of shared, cross-modal location coding for perception and action.

scholarly journals Dopamine Alters Tactile Perception in Parkinson's Disease

2012 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aimee J. Nelson ◽  
Azra Premji ◽  
Navjot Rai ◽  
Tasnuva Hoque ◽  
Mark Tommerdahl ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Parkinson’S Disease ◽  
Parkinson's Disease ◽  
Temporal Order ◽  
Temporal Order Judgment ◽  
Tactile Perception ◽  
Somatosensory Processing ◽  
Motor Impairments ◽  
Tactile Acuity ◽  
Tactile Stimuli ◽  
The Right

Background:Abnormal somatosensory processing may contribute to motor impairments observed in Parkinson's disease (PD). Dopaminergic medications have been shown to alter somatosensory processing such that tactile perception is improved. In PD, it remains unclear whether the temporal sequencing of tactile stimuli is altered and if dopaminergic medications alter this perception.Methods:Somatosensory tactile perception was investigated using temporal order judgment in patients with Parkinson's disease on and off dopaminergic medications and in aged-matched healthy controls. Measures of temporal order judgment were acquired using computer controlled stimulation to digits 2 and 3 on the right hand and subjects were required to determine which stimuli occurred first. Two experimental tasks were compared, temporal order judgment without and with synchronization whereby digits 2 and 3 were vibrated synchronously in advance of the temporal order judgment sequence of stimuli.Results:Temporal order judgment in PD patients off and on medications were similar to controls. Temporal order judgment preceded by synchronous vibration impaired tactile acuity in controls and in PD off medications to similar degrees, but this perceptual impairment by synchronous vibration was not present in PD patients on medications.Conclusions:These findings suggest that dopamine in PD reduces cortico-cortical connectivity within SI and this leads to changes in tactile sensitivity.

The Effect of Visual Information on Young Children’s Perceptual Sensitivity to Musical Beat Alignment

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 88-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen M. Einarson ◽  
Laurel J. Trainor
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Visual Information ◽  
Visual Stimuli ◽  
The Other ◽  
Visual Images ◽  
Auditory Stimuli ◽  
Auditory Information ◽  
Perceptual Sensitivity ◽  
Visual Condition ◽  
Main Effect

Recent work examined five-year-old children’s perceptual sensitivity to musical beat alignment. In this work, children watched pairs of videos of puppets drumming to music with simple or complex metre, where one puppet’s drumming sounds (and movements) were synchronized with the beat of the music and the other drummed with incorrect tempo or phase. The videos were used to maintain children’s interest in the task. Five-year-olds were better able to detect beat misalignments in simple than complex metre music. However, adults can perform poorly when attempting to detect misalignment of sound and movement in audiovisual tasks, so it is possible that the moving stimuli actually hindered children’s performance. Here we compared children’s sensitivity to beat misalignment in conditions with dynamic visual movement versus still (static) visual images. Eighty-four five-year-old children performed either the same task as described above or a task that employed identical auditory stimuli accompanied by a motionless picture of the puppet with the drum. There was a significant main effect of metre type, replicating the finding that five-year-olds are better able to detect beat misalignment in simple metre music. There was no main effect of visual condition. These results suggest that, given identical auditory information, children’s ability to judge beat misalignment in this task is not affected by the presence or absence of dynamic visual stimuli. We conclude that at five years of age, children can tell if drumming is aligned to the musical beat when the music has simple metric structure.

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