Auditorily-induced illusory self-motion: a review.
The aim of this paper is to provide a first review of studies related to auditorily-induced self-motion (vection). These studies have been scarce and scattered over the years and over several research communities including clinical audiology, multisensory perception of self-motion and its neural correlates, ergonomics, and virtual reality. The reviewed studies provide evidence that auditorily-induced vection has behavioral, physiological and neural correlates. Although the sound contribution to self-motion perception appears to be weaker than the visual modality, specific acoustic cues appear to be instrumental for a number of domains including posture prosthesis, navigation in unusual gravitoinertial environments (in the air, in space, or underwater), non-visual navigation, and multisensory integration during self-motion. A number of open research questions are highlighted opening avenue for more active and systematic studies in this area.
Väljamäe
Aleksander
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Laboratory for Synthetic Perceptive, Emotive and Cognitive Systems, Institute of Audiovisual Studies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain. aleksander.valjamae@upf.edu
D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D001307:Auditory Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D009039:Motion Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D009949:Orientation / Q000502:physiology; D013017:Sound Localization / Q000502:physiology; D013028:Space Perception / Q000502:physiology*