Auditory environmental context affects visual distance perception

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 7; no. 1; pp. 7189 - 10
• Main Authors: Etchemendy, Pablo E., Abregú, Ezequiel, Calcagno, Esteban R., Eguia, Manuel C., Vechiatti, Nilda, Iasi, Federico, Vergara, Ramiro O.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 03.08.2017; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 631/378/2613/2616; 631/378/2619; 631/378/2649/1723; Acoustic Stimulation; Adult; Cues; Depth perception; Distance Perception; Environment; Experiments; Female; Humanities and Social Sciences; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; multidisciplinary; Perception; Perceptions; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Sensory integration; Visual Perception

In this article, we show that visual distance perception (VDP) is influenced by the auditory environmental context through reverberation-related cues. We performed two VDP experiments in two dark rooms with extremely different reverberation times: an anechoic chamber and a reverberant room. Subjects...