Proximal Binaural Sound Can Induce Subjective Frisson
Auditory frisson is the experience of feeling of cold or shivering related to sound in the absence of a physical cold stimulus. Multiple examples of frisson-inducing sounds have been reported, but the mechanism of auditory frisson remains elusive. Typical frisson-inducing sounds may contain a loomin...
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| author | Shiori Honda Yuri Ishikawa Rei Konno Eiko Imai Natsumi Nomiyama Kazuki Sakurada Takuya Koumura Hirohito M. Kondo Shigeto Furukawa Shinya Fujii Masashi Nakatani Masashi Nakatani |
| author_facet | Shiori Honda Yuri Ishikawa Rei Konno Eiko Imai Natsumi Nomiyama Kazuki Sakurada Takuya Koumura Hirohito M. Kondo Shigeto Furukawa Shinya Fujii Masashi Nakatani Masashi Nakatani |
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| description | Auditory frisson is the experience of feeling of cold or shivering related to sound in the absence of a physical cold stimulus. Multiple examples of frisson-inducing sounds have been reported, but the mechanism of auditory frisson remains elusive. Typical frisson-inducing sounds may contain a looming effect, in which a sound appears to approach the listener's peripersonal space. Previous studies on sound in peripersonal space have provided objective measurements of sound-inducing effects, but few have investigated the subjective experience of frisson-inducing sounds. Here we explored whether it is possible to produce subjective feelings of frisson by moving a noise sound (white noise, rolling beads noise, or frictional noise produced by rubbing a plastic bag) stimulus around a listener's head. Our results demonstrated that sound-induced frisson can be experienced stronger when auditory stimuli are rotated around the head (binaural moving sounds) than the one without the rotation (monaural static sounds), regardless of the source of the noise sound. Pearson's correlation analysis showed that several acoustic features of auditory stimuli, such as variance of interaural level difference (ILD), loudness, and sharpness, were correlated with the magnitude of subjective frisson. We had also observed that the subjective feelings of frisson by moving a musical sound had increased comparing with a static musical sound. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-bb038ac494c448948a88fd1dc7b1ea342022-12-22T00:42:51ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782020-03-011110.3389/fpsyg.2020.00316468310Proximal Binaural Sound Can Induce Subjective FrissonShiori Honda0Yuri Ishikawa1Rei Konno2Eiko Imai3Natsumi Nomiyama4Kazuki Sakurada5Takuya Koumura6Hirohito M. Kondo7Shigeto Furukawa8Shinya Fujii9Masashi Nakatani10Masashi Nakatani11Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University, Fujisawa, JapanGraduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University, Fujisawa, JapanGraduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University, Fujisawa, JapanFaculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University, Fujisawa, JapanFaculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University, Fujisawa, JapanFaculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University, Fujisawa, JapanNTT Communication Science Laboratories, Atsugi, JapanSchool of Psychology, Chukyo University, Nagoya, JapanNTT Communication Science Laboratories, Atsugi, JapanFaculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University, Fujisawa, JapanFaculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University, Fujisawa, JapanPrecursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST PRESTO), Saitama, JapanAuditory frisson is the experience of feeling of cold or shivering related to sound in the absence of a physical cold stimulus. Multiple examples of frisson-inducing sounds have been reported, but the mechanism of auditory frisson remains elusive. Typical frisson-inducing sounds may contain a looming effect, in which a sound appears to approach the listener's peripersonal space. Previous studies on sound in peripersonal space have provided objective measurements of sound-inducing effects, but few have investigated the subjective experience of frisson-inducing sounds. Here we explored whether it is possible to produce subjective feelings of frisson by moving a noise sound (white noise, rolling beads noise, or frictional noise produced by rubbing a plastic bag) stimulus around a listener's head. Our results demonstrated that sound-induced frisson can be experienced stronger when auditory stimuli are rotated around the head (binaural moving sounds) than the one without the rotation (monaural static sounds), regardless of the source of the noise sound. Pearson's correlation analysis showed that several acoustic features of auditory stimuli, such as variance of interaural level difference (ILD), loudness, and sharpness, were correlated with the magnitude of subjective frisson. We had also observed that the subjective feelings of frisson by moving a musical sound had increased comparing with a static musical sound.https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00316/fullfrissonASMRbinaurallooming effectaudio mixing |
| spellingShingle | Shiori Honda Yuri Ishikawa Rei Konno Eiko Imai Natsumi Nomiyama Kazuki Sakurada Takuya Koumura Hirohito M. Kondo Shigeto Furukawa Shinya Fujii Masashi Nakatani Masashi Nakatani Proximal Binaural Sound Can Induce Subjective Frisson Frontiers in Psychology frisson ASMR binaural looming effect audio mixing |
| title | Proximal Binaural Sound Can Induce Subjective Frisson |
| title_full | Proximal Binaural Sound Can Induce Subjective Frisson |
| title_fullStr | Proximal Binaural Sound Can Induce Subjective Frisson |
| title_full_unstemmed | Proximal Binaural Sound Can Induce Subjective Frisson |
| title_short | Proximal Binaural Sound Can Induce Subjective Frisson |
| title_sort | proximal binaural sound can induce subjective frisson |
| topic | frisson ASMR binaural looming effect audio mixing |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00316/full |
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