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McLachlan, G.; Majdak, P.; Reijniers, J.; Mihocic, M.; Peremans, H. |
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Bayesian active sound localisation : to what extent do humans perform like an ideal-observer? |
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2025 |
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PLoS computational biology |
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e1012108-22 |
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A1 Journal article; Psychology; Engineering sciences. Technology; Engineering Management (ENM); Condensed Matter Theory (CMT) |
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Self-motion is an essential but often overlooked component of sound localisation. As the directional information of a source is implicitly contained in head-centred acoustic cues, that acoustic input needs to be continuously combined with sensorimotor information about the head orientation in order to decode to a world-centred frame of reference. When utilised, head movements significantly reduce ambiguities in the directional information provided by the incoming sound. In this work, we model human active sound localisation (considering small head rotations) as an ideal observer. In the evaluation, we compared human performance obtained in a free-field active localisation experiment with the predictions of a Bayesian model. Model noise parameters were set a-priori based on behavioural results from other studies, i.e., without any post-hoc parameter fitting to behavioural results. The model predictions showed a general agreement with actual human performance. However, a spatial analysis revealed that the ideal observer was not able to predict localisation behaviour for each source direction. A more detailed investigation into the effects of various model parameters indicated that uncertainty on head orientation significantly contributed to the observed differences. Yet, the biases and spatial distribution of the human responses remained partially unexplained by the presented ideal observer model, suggesting that human sound localisation is sub-optimal. |
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2025-01-07 |
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1553-734x; 1553-7358 |
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4.3 |
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Most recent IF: 4.3; 2025 IF: 4.542 |
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UA @ admin @ c:irua:211701 |
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