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Spatial and temporal factors in auditory saltation.

D P Phillips1, S E Hall

  • 1Department of Psychology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. ears@is.dal.ca

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
|September 27, 2001
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Auditory saltation, the illusion of perceived clicks, is supported by dichotic stimuli. However, increasing interaural level differences (ILDs) weaken this illusion, suggesting spatial separation reduces perceived clicks.

Area of Science:

  • Auditory perception
  • Psychoacoustics
  • Psychophysics

Background:

  • Auditory saltation is a perceptual illusion where discrete auditory events are perceived as a continuous stream.
  • Understanding the factors influencing auditory saltation is crucial for auditory scene analysis and human-computer interaction.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the influence of binaural disparities (interaural time and level differences) on the strength of the auditory saltation illusion.
  • To determine how stimulus lateralization affects the perception of auditory saltation.
  • To explore the temporal window of auditory saltation.

Main Methods:

  • Three experiments were conducted using trains of click stimuli with varying interclick intervals (ICIs).
  • Experiment 1: Compared saltation strength for monaural versus dichotic clicks with interaural time or level differences.

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  • Experiment 2: Assessed saltation strength across a range of interaural level differences (ILDs).
  • Experiment 3: Varied the number of leading dichotic clicks before a disparity reversal to determine the temporal window of the effect.

    • Main Results:

    • Auditory saltation was supported by dichotic clicks, irrespective of the specific binaural manipulation.
    • Saltation strength decreased as the interaural level difference (ILD) increased, becoming similar to monaural stimulation at 30 dB ILD.
    • The temporal window for auditory saltation varied among listeners but was generally under 350-400 ms.

    Conclusions:

    • Dichotic stimulation effectively elicits auditory saltation, but strong lateralization via ILD diminishes the illusion.
    • The perceived strength of auditory saltation is sensitive to the degree of spatial separation between auditory events.
    • Auditory saltation operates within a specific temporal integration window that is listener-dependent.