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The discrimination of the angular velocity of ventrodorsal and dorsoventral movement of an acoustic image was studied in nine test subjects. The experiments were performed using an apparent movement produced by consecutive activation of loudspeakers located along an arc in the vertical plane. The differential thresholds were measured by the minimum increment method. As the velocity of an acoustic image movement in opposite directions increased, the values of its mean absolute differential thresholds increased monotonically. Regression lines plotted by linear approximation of these values did not differ significantly.
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Agaeva, M.Y., Nikitin, N.I. Human Discrimination of the Angular Velocity of the Vertical Movement of an Acoustic Image in Opposite Directions. Human Physiology 27, 197–201 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1011079317045
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