2024/08/05 by Leon O. H. Kroczek, Sarah Roßkopf, Felix Stärz +3 · 1 voice · 1 citation
Psychology · Health Professions · #Multisensory perception and integration #Noise Effects and Management
paper · doi:10.1037/xhp0001222
openalex publication_date 2024/08/05 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/22
= 32), participants were standing in front of several virtual agents or virtual loudspeakers and had to indicate the sound source by directing their gaze toward the perceived sound location. Results in both preregistered experiments consistently showed that participants estimated the location of angry voice stimuli at greater distances than the location of neutral voice stimuli. We discuss that neither emotional nor motivational biases can account for these results. Instead, distance estimates seem to rely on listeners' representations regarding the relationship between vocal affect and acoustic characteristics. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).