The Postural Responses to a Moving Environment of Adults who are Blind

Stoffregen, Thomas A.; Ito, Kiyohide; Hove, Philip; Yank, Jane Redfield; Bardy, Benoît G.

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“…In this case, the information perceived by the auditory system contradicts the information given by other sensory modalities, thereby introducing a sensory conflict. Second, spatial sound is also known to create physical responses such as adjustments to posture [12] , [13] , which might influence self-motion perception and MS. Currently, it is not clear whether the strength of the response to spatially moving sound is enough to by-pass other cues to self-motion perception (i.e., visual, vestibular, somatosensory) in a way that leads to perceptual, behavioral, and physical responses such as MS or vection.…”

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Demonstrating the Potential for Dynamic Auditory Stimulation to Contribute to Motion Sickness

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Auditory cues can create the illusion of self-motion (vection) in the absence of visual or physical stimulation. The present study aimed to determine whether auditory cues alone can also elicit motion sickness and how auditory cues contribute to motion sickness when added to visual motion stimuli. Twenty participants were seated in front of a curved projection display and were exposed to a virtual scene that constantly rotated around the participant's vertical axis. The virtual scene contained either visual-only, auditory-only, or a combination of corresponding visual and auditory cues. All participants performed all three conditions in a counterbalanced order. Participants tilted their heads alternately towards the right or left shoulder in all conditions during stimulus exposure in order to create pseudo-Coriolis effects and to maximize the likelihood for motion sickness. Measurements of motion sickness (onset, severity), vection (latency, strength, duration), and postural steadiness (center of pressure) were recorded. Results showed that adding auditory cues to the visual stimuli did not, on average, affect motion sickness and postural steadiness, but it did reduce vection onset times and increased vection strength compared to pure visual or pure auditory stimulation. Eighteen of the 20 participants reported at least slight motion sickness in the two conditions including visual stimuli. More interestingly, six participants also reported slight motion sickness during pure auditory stimulation and two of the six participants stopped the pure auditory test session due to motion sickness. The present study is the first to demonstrate that motion sickness may be caused by pure auditory stimulation, which we refer to as “auditorily induced motion sickness”.

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Demonstrating the Potential for Dynamic Auditory Stimulation to Contribute to Motion Sickness

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“…Using only sound, individual is capable of determining when they need to act so that a moving target can be intercepted ( Vernat and Gordon, 2010 ). What an individual hears influences their ability to maintain a stable posture (e.g., Soames and Raper, 1992 ; Stoffregen et al, 2009b , 2019 ) and the stability of their posture influences their ability to successfully use sound to judge whether a surface can be stepped upon or walked under O’Neill and Russell (2017) . By acting, individuals are able to detect information otherwise unavailable.…”

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Age and Auditory Spatial Perception in Humans: Review of Behavioral Findings and Suggestions for Future Research

Russell

2022

Front. Psychol.

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It has been well documented, and fairly well known, that concomitant with an increase in chronological age is a corresponding increase in sensory impairment. As most people realize, our hearing suffers as we get older; hence, the increased need for hearing aids. The first portion of the present paper is how the change in age apparently affects auditory judgments of sound source position. A summary of the literature evaluating the changes in the perception of sound source location and the perception of sound source motion as a function of chronological age is presented. The review is limited to empirical studies with behavioral findings involving humans. It is the view of the author that we have an immensely limited understanding of how chronological age affects perception of space when based on sound. In the latter part of the paper, discussion is given to how auditory spatial perception is traditionally conducted in the laboratory. Theoretically, beneficial reasons exist for conducting research in the manner it has been. Nonetheless, from an ecological perspective, the vast majority of previous research can be considered unnatural and greatly lacking in ecological validity. Suggestions for an alternative and more ecologically valid approach to the investigation of auditory spatial perception are proposed. It is believed an ecological approach to auditory spatial perception will enhance our understanding of the extent to which individuals perceive sound source location and how those perceptual judgments change with an increase in chronological age.

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“…In several experiments in this paradigm, the relation of the observers to the room was perceived with perceptual systems other than vision. For example, Stoffregen et al (2009Stoffregen et al ( , 2010 provided acoustic information about the oscillations of the room and Jeka et al (1997Jeka et al ( , 1998 asked participants to touch an object (with their fingertips) and then moved the object at different frequencies in different experimental conditions (cf. Jeka et al, 1996).…”

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The Haptic Moving Room

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Fasone

et al. 2024

Ecological Psychology

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The Postural Responses to a Moving Environment of Adults who are Blind

Abstract: Adults who are blind stood in a room that could be moved around them. A sound source moved with the room, simulating the acoustic consequences of body sway. Body sway was greater when the room moved than when it was stationary, suggesting that sound may have been used to control stance.

Cited by 8 publications

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Demonstrating the Potential for Dynamic Auditory Stimulation to Contribute to Motion Sickness

Demonstrating the Potential for Dynamic Auditory Stimulation to Contribute to Motion Sickness

Age and Auditory Spatial Perception in Humans: Review of Behavioral Findings and Suggestions for Future Research

The Haptic Moving Room

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