Auditory neuroscience: the salience of looming sounds.
Sounds that move towards us have a greater biological salience than those that move away. Recent studies in human and non-human primates have demonstrated a perceptual and behavioural priority for such looming sounds that is also reflected in an asymmetric pattern of cortical activation.
Hall
Deborah A
DA
MRC Institute of Hearing Research, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK.
Moore
David R
DR
D000818:Animals; D001522:Behavior, Animal / Q000502:physiology; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D009039:Motion Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D013016:Sound; D013017:Sound Localization / Q000502:physiology*