Love it. I reckon it would work the other way round too. Show people the horse or whatever and then play them the sound through the speaker . There has been a lot of experiments like this one that particularily springs to mind is WALLACH, H. (1940) The role of head movements and vestibular and visual cues in sound localization. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 27, 339-368. - thats a really weird one definately a mut read - theres a good summary in the psychology of hearing. >From experience doing sound installations the illusion of insect noise in a forest is completely destroyed if anyone can see a speaker. If the speakers are hidden you can get away with what would otherwise be considered unconvincing spatial cues (as long as the listener isnt a spatial audio academic - they're too analytical to fool ). I dont know of any example of audio cues oceriding viual one - anyone ?
My apologies, I don't mean to bury the discussion. > > By questioning the role that cognitive processes play in perception I am > really just continuing to challenge the assumption that we can approach > 'reality-equivalence' through the (technological) physical modelling of > sound informed by the scientific observation of the perception of stimuli. > > Actually, I thought of a test that could establish the role of the > cognitive dimension. Here it is: > > Create a concert environment, with lots of speakers set up in a circle, 16, > 32 ... whatever number is convincing of super-dooper technology. Blindfold > all participants. Allow for a largish corridor straight through the centre > of the listening area. > > Get a horse, a real horse. Walk the horse through the listening area. > > After the 'performance', ask the participants how realistic the sound of > the horse was ... on a scale of 1-100%. > > My hypothesis is that there will be people who will score below 100%. And > if they do (this is very un-scientific of me ... I should just do the > experiment), then this demonstrates that even if technology can recreate > the exact stimuli that is heard in real-life, it is not sufficient to > create a successful illusion of reality... or to create > reality-equivalence. > > Etienne > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20120612/8f269f8d/attachment.html > > > _______________________________________________ > Sursound mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20120612/7d939d00/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list [email protected] https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
