When Room Size Matters: Acoustic Influences on Emotional Responses to Sounds
When Room Size Matters: Acoustic Influences on Emotional Responses to Sounds
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DOI：
10.1037/a0018423
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发表时间：
2010-06-01
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影响因子：
4.2
通讯作者：
Kleiner, Mendel
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作者：
Tajadura-Jimenez, Ana;Larsson, Pontus;Kleiner, Mendel
当人们听到一个声音（一个“声音对象”或一个“声音事件”）时，他们周围感知到的听觉空间可能会调节他们对它的情感反应。空间既可以影响声音事件本身的声学特性，也可以对人们可以针对这个事件采取的行动施加界限。不同大小的虚拟声学房间被用于主观和心理生理学实验，该实验评估了听觉空间感知对各种声源的情感反应的影响。参与者（N = 20）暴露于声源位置和房间声学特性在实验条件下变化的声学空间。结果表明，总体而言，小房间被认为比大房间更舒适，更安静，更安全，尽管当听到威胁性的声源时，这种大小的影响似乎消失了。在听众身后听到的声音往往比在听众面前听到的声音更能引起兴奋，并引起更大的生理变化。这些影响更明显的自然，相比，人工，声源，证实了主观和生理措施。
When people hear a sound (a "sound object" or a "sound event") the perceived auditory space around them might modulate their emotional responses to it. Spaces can affect both the acoustic properties of the sound event itself and may also impose boundaries to the actions one can take with respect to this event. Virtual acoustic rooms of different sizes were used in a subjective and psychophysiological experiment that evaluated the influence of the auditory space perception on emotional responses to various sound sources. Participants (N = 20) were exposed to acoustic spaces with sound source positions and room acoustic properties varying across the experimental conditions. The results suggest that, overall, small rooms were considered more pleasant, calmer, and safer than big rooms, although this effect of size seems to disappear when listening to threatening sound sources. Sounds heard behind the listeners tended to be more arousing, and elicited larger physiological changes than sources in front of the listeners. These effects were more pronounced for natural, compared to artificial, sound sources, as confirmed by subjective and physiological measures.