Auditory Envelopment and The Affective Touch Hypothesis

Lund T. Auditory Envelopment and The Affective Touch Hypothesis. In: Convention Paper. Audio Engineering Society; 2024. Paper 10187. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=22690

@inproceedings{Lund2024_22690,
  author = {Lund, Thomas},
  title = {{Auditory Envelopment and The Affective Touch Hypothesis}},
  note = {Paper 10187},
  year = {2024},
  month = sep,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=22690}
}

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AB  - Anticipation and pleasure in response to music listening can lead to dopamine release in the human striatal system, a neural midbrain reward and motivation cluster. The sensation of auditory envelopment, however, may also in itself have a stimulating effect. Theoretical reason and circumstantial evidence are given why this could be the case, thereby possibly constituting an auditory complement to a newly discovered and studied percept, affective touch, originating from C-tactile fibres in the skin, stimulated certain ways. In a pilot test, abstract sounds were used to determine the audibility of low frequency inter-aural fluctuation. Nave subjects aged between 6 and 96 years were all sensitive to the conditions tested and asked to characterize the stimuli in their own words. Based on these results, controlling low frequency inter-aural fluctuation in listeners should be a priority when recording, mixing, distributing and reproducing audio.
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