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Perception of approaching and withdrawing sound sources and their action on auditory aftereffects were studied in the free field. Motion of adapting stimuli was mimicked in two ways: (1) simultaneous opposite changes of amplitude of broadband noise impulses at two loudspeakers placed at 1.1 and 4.5 m from the listener; (2) an increase or a decrease of amplitude of broadband noise impulses in only one loudspeaker, the nearer or the remote one. Motion of test stimuli was mimicked in the former way. Listeners determined direction of the test stimuli motion without any adaptation (control) or after adaptation to stationary, slowly moving (with an amplitude change of 2 dB) and rapidly moving (amplitude change of 12 dB) stimuli. Percentages of “withdrawal” reports were used for construction of psychometric curves. Three phenomena of auditory perception were observed. In the absence of adaptation, a growing-louder effect was revealed, i.e., listeners reported more frequently the test sounds as the approaching ones. Once adapted to stationary or slowly moving stimuli, listeners showed a location-dependent aftereffect. Test stimuli were reported as withdrawing more often as compared with control. The effect was associated with the previous one and was weaker when the distance to the loudspeaker producing adapting stimuli was greater. After adaptation to rapidly moving stimuli, a motion aftereffect was revealed. In this case, listeners reported a direction of test stimuli motion as being opposite to that of adapting stimuli. The motion aftereffect was more pronounced when the adapting stimuli motion was mimicked in the former way, as this method allows estimation of their trajectory. There was no relationship between the motion aftereffect and the growing-louder effect, whichever way the adapting stimuli were produced. There was observed a tendency for reduction of aftereffects of approaching and for intensification of aftereffects of withdrawal with growing distance from source of adapting stimuli.
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Original Russian Text © E.S. Malinina, I.G. Andreeva, 2013, published in Zhurnal Evolyutsionnoi Biokhimii i Fiziologii, 2013, Vol. 49, No. 3, pp. 211–223.
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Malinina, E.S., Andreeva, I.G. Auditory aftereffects of approaching and withdrawing sound sources: Dependence on the trajectory and location of adapting stimuli. J Evol Biochem Phys 49, 316–329 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0022093013030067
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