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This investigation examined the ability of listeners to perceive apparent motion under binaural and monaural listening conditions. Fifty-millisecond broadband noise sources were presented through two speakers separated in space by either 10°, 40°, or 160°, centered about the subject’s midline. On each trial, the sources were temporally separated by 1 of 12 interstimulus onset intervals (ISOIs). Six listeners were asked to place their experience of these sounds into one of five categories (single sound, simultaneous sounds, continuous motion, broken motion, or successive sounds), and to indicate either the proper temporal sequence of presentation or the direction of motion, depending on whether or not motion was perceived. Each listener was tested at all spatial separations under binaural and monaural listening conditions. Motion was perceived in the binaural listening condition at all spatial separations tested for ISOIs between 20 and 130 msec. In the monaural listening condition, motion was reliably heard by all subjects at 10° and 40° for the same range of ISOIs. At 160°, only 3 of the 6 subjects consistently reported motion. However, when motion was perceived in the monaural condition, the direction of motion could not be determined.
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This research was supported in part by grants from the National Science Foundation (BNS-8512317) and the National Institute of Health (3S06 RR0801-1452).
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Strybel, T.Z., Manligas, C.L. & Perrott, D.R. Auditory apparent motion under binaural and monaural listening conditions. Perception & Psychophysics 45, 371–377 (1989). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03204951
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