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Human echolocation using click trains and continuous noise
Stockholm University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Psychology.
2011 (English)In: Fechner Day 2011: Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics / [ed] D. Algom, D. Zakay, E. Chajut, S. Shaki, Y. Mama, & V. Shakuf, Raanana, Israel: International Society for Psychophysics , 2011Conference paper, Published paper (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

Blind people may detect objects from the information in reflected sounds, echolocation. Detection as a function of the number of clicks compared to a continuous noise was tested by presenting clicks of 5 ms with rates from 1 to 64 clicks during a 500 ms period and a 500-ms continuous white noise. The sounds were recorded in an ordinary room through an artificial binaural head. The reflecting object was an aluminum disk, diameter 0.5 m, at distances of 1 and 1.5 m. These sounds were later presented to 3 blind and 16 sighted participants in a laboratory using a 2AFC methodology. The task was to detect which of the two sounds that contained a reflecting object. Feedback was provided. The blind participants had a higher detection than the sighted, but there were also differences among the blind. These results are put in relation to physical features such as the autocorrelation function and spectral variations.

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Raanana, Israel: International Society for Psychophysics , 2011.
Keywords [en]
echo location, perception, blind
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Psychology
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Psychology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-70001OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-70001DiVA, id: diva2:478515
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Fechner Day 2011
Available from: 2012-01-16 Created: 2012-01-16 Last updated: 2022-02-24Bibliographically approved

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