Auditorily-induced illusory self-motion: A review
Journal article, 2009
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. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Spatial sound
spatial presence
Virtual auditory display
visual-motion
postural sway behavior
Vection
Multisensory perception
sound-source
eye-movements
circular vection
stimulation
optokinetic
virtual environments
Cognitive acoustics
vestibular cortex
ventral intraparietal area
Auditory motion
Illusory self-motion
Author
Alexander Väljamäe
Chalmers, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Applied Acoustics
Brain Research Reviews
0165-0173 (ISSN)
Vol. 61 2 240-255Subject Categories
Medical Laboratory and Measurements Technologies
DOI
10.1016/j.brainresrev.2009.07.001