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Young, GW;Murphy, D;Weeter, J
2017
January
Ieee Transactions On Haptics
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON HAPTICS
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PERCEPTION SOUND TOUCH INTEGRATION CORTEX
10
135
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We present an experiment that investigated the effect of vibrotactile stimulation in auditory pitch discrimination tasks. Extra-auditory information was expected to have some influence upon the frequency discrimination of auditory Just Noticeable Difference (JND) detection levels at 160 Hz. To measure this, the potential to correctly identified positive and negative frequency changes for two randomly divided groups was measured and then compared. The first group was given an audio only JND test and the second group was given the same test, but with additional vibrotactile stimulus delivered via a vibrating glove device. The results of the experiment suggest that in musical interactions involving the selection of specific pitches, or the detection of pitch variation, vibrotactile feedback may have some advantageous effect upon a musician's ability to perceive changes when presented in synchrony with auditory stimulus.
LOS ALAMITOS
1939-1412
10.1109/TOH.2016.2646370
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