Looking at the world with your ears: How do we get the size of an object from its sound?

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 143, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 96-104

  Grassi, Massimo ^a   Pastore, Massimiliano ^a   Lemaitre, Guillaume ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY IUAV OF VENICE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Auditory cognition; Ecological acoustics; Size estimation

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUND; SOUND DETECTION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ACOUSTICS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SIZE PERCEPTION; SOUND; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY;

EID: 84875792656     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2013.02.005     Document Type: Article

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