Action perception via auditory information: Agent identification and discrimination with complex movement sounds

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There is a whole body of research that provides evidence that the motor system plays a crucial role in controlling as well as perceiving movements. So far a lot of evidence for the interaction of action and perception derives from studies in the visual domain. However, up to now not much is known about the role of acoustic information. The focus of this review is to provide an overview regarding the role of the motor system and auditory sense during action perception and motor control. Recent theories and studies that discuss the interaction of perception and action will be reviewed with an emphasis on the use of acoustic information. Empirical evidence derived from behavioral as well as neuroscience research using simple as well as whole-body movements will be provided. Additionally, we will provide perspectives regarding future research questions to bring forward our understanding of the role of acoustic information in the control and perception of actions and its underlying mechanisms.

Section: Perception Of Own and Other Individuals' Movementssupporting

confidence: 83%

“…As presented in the previous sections, recent research confirmed that naturally occurring movement sounds in form of auditory reafferences contain useful information in many respects [e.g. 27,28].…”

Section: The Role Of Auditory Cues For Action Control: the Feedback Tmentioning

confidence: 58%

Acoustic Information During Motor Control and Action Perception: A Review

Pizzera¹,

Hohmann²

2015

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“…Further still, people also seem to show keen ability to perceive the actions and attributes of other agents that may create an auditory event. Listeners have been to be able to identify a person's emotion or gender from their footsteps and state whether or not a recorded sound was produced by themselves or by another person [26,29,[40][41][42][43][44]. These findings have validated the idea that listeners are able to directly pick-up the structured auditory information from how it corresponds to the invariant interactions of physical environmental forces.…”

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Bringing Sounds into Use: Thinking of Sounds as Materials and a Sketch of Auditory Affordances

Steenson¹,

Rodger²

2015

Abstract:We live in a richly structured auditory environment. From the sounds of cars charging towards us on the street to the sounds of music filling a dancehall, sounds like these are generally seen as being instances of things we hear but can also be understood as opportunities for action. In some circumstances, the sound of a car approaching towards us can provide critical information for the avoidance of harm. In the context of a concert venue, sociocultural practices like music can equally afford coordinated activities of movement, such as dancing or music making. Despite how evident the behavioral effects of sound are in our everyday experience, they have been sparsely accounted for within the field of psychology. Instead, most theories of auditory perception have been more concerned with understanding how sounds are passively processed and represented and how they convey information of the world, neglecting than how this information can be used for anything. Here, we argue against these previous rationalizations, suggesting instead that information is instantiated through use and, therefore, is an emergent effect of a perceiver's interaction with their environment. Drawing on theory from psychology, philosophy and anthropology, we contend that by thinking of sounds as materials, theorists and researchers alike can get to grips with the vast array of auditory affordances that we purposefully bring into use when interacting with the environment.Keywords: Affordances, auditory perception, dance, ecological psychology, music, sensorimotor coordination. TAKING SOUNDS OUT OF THE HEADUnderstanding the perception of sound and how we interact with auditory information is not an easy task. It is difficult to conceive an objective way of explaining auditory experiences when our perceptions of sound and our intentions surrounding these perceptions, by definition, are subjective mental phenomena. This distinction between the objective and the subjective, the mental and physical, is a problem that has dogged psychology generally over its short lifespan. Different approaches have been developed to explain these dichotomies, which have left far reaching implications on how researchers have approached more specialist areas, such as auditory perception. The dominant approaches to psychology, such as cognitive-and information processing-based approaches, explain auditory perception as the transformation of objective input (energy stimulating receptors) into subjective output (declarative descriptions of, or, responses to received input). This process of input-cognitionoutput, we argue, falls short of adequately accounting for the phenomenology of our experiences with the auditory environment.In this paper, we instead propose an alternative view to auditory perception that can account for the various creative ways we can meaningfully use and interact with sounds. Drawing on ideas from ecological psychology, this approach takes a different form of discourse to conventional cognitive *Address correspondence to this author at ...

“…The results revealed that athletes were able to correctly recognise their own swing through sound, and that a crucial factor for recognition was the temporal structure of the stimuli. The ability to identify the sounds associated with one's own performance was also demonstrated in hurdling [72,73] and received further support through neurophysiological evidence that listening to one's own long jumps versus those of other athletes promoted the activation of different brain areas [74].…”

Section: Audio-based Interventions In Sport: Audi-tory Modelingmentioning

confidence: 93%

Audio-Based Interventions in Sport

Sors¹,

Murgia²,

Santoro³

et al. 2015

In common practice, sports-perceptual interventions are mainly based on vision. However, research demonstrates that sporting performance can also be improved through the use of sounds, showing the relevance of the auditory channel to convey sports-related information, which can positively affect athletes’ motor outcomes. This review examines the potential of audio-based interventions in sport. The relevant concepts are defined, a brief overview of the techniques based on vision is given and laboratory studies demonstrating the effectiveness of sounds in improving the execution of simple rhythmic motor tasks are reviewed. Subsequently, neurophysiological evidence of the influence of sounds on the motor regions of the brain is provided and different kinds of audio-based interventions, emphasising their methodological details and the effects of their application to specific sporting performances are described. Finally, recommendations for further research in this field, aimed both at maximizing the potential of audio-based interventions and their implementation at applied sporting contexts, are suggested.