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A Method for Tracking the Time Evolution of Steady-State Evoked Potentials
Published on: May 25, 2019
Effects of frequency characteristics of reverberation time on listener envelopment
Masayuki Morimoto1, Munehiro Jinya, Koichi Nakagawa
1Environmental Acoustics Laboratory, Faculty of Engineering, Kobe University, Rokko, Nada, Kobe 657-8501, Japan. mrmt@kobe-u.ac.jp
Abstract:
Spatial impression perceived in a listening space comprises at least two components: one is auditory (apparent) source width (ASW) and the other is listener envelopment (LEV). Both ASW and LEV are affected not only by temporal but also by spatial structures of reflections. It has been clarified that ASW for symphony music is significantly affected by low-frequency components of source signals and reflections, but not by their high-frequency components. The objective of this work is to investigate whether LEV is affected by the frequency characteristics of source signals and reverberation sounds, which are known to contribute to the creation of LEV. In this study, three experiments were performed to clarify the effects of reverberation time (RT) and its frequency characteristics on LEV. In contrast to the case of ASW, the experimental results show that RTs both at high and low frequencies affect LEV.
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