The effect of looming and receding sounds on the perceived in-depth orientation of depth-ambiguous biological motion figures

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Schouten, Ben ^a   Troje, Nikolaus F ^b   Vroomen, Jean ^c   Verfaillie, Karl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC REFLEX; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY FEEDBACK; AUDITORY ORIENTATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND INTENSITY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FEEDBACK; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL REFLEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; ART; ASSOCIATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; HEARING; MOTION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SOUND;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CUES; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN BODY; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SOUND; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 79952014476     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0014725     Document Type: Article

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