Auditory Room Identification in a Memory Task

Klein F, Surdu T, Treybig L, Werner S, Aretz A, Birth K, Edelmann N, Seitelman F, Ziener C, Sporer T. Auditory Room Identification in a Memory Task. In: AES Conference: AES 2022 International Audio for Virtual and Augmented Reality Conference. Audio Engineering Society; 2022. Paper 15. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=21845

@inproceedings{Klein2022_21845,
  author = {Klein, Florian and Surdu, Tatiana and Treybig, Lukas and Werner, Stephan and Aretz, Arthur and Birth, Kilian and Edelmann, Niklas and Seitelman, Florian and Ziener, Christian and Sporer, Thomas},
  title = {{Auditory Room Identification in a Memory Task}},
  booktitle = {AES Conference: AES 2022 International Audio for Virtual and Augmented Reality Conference},
  note = {Paper 15},
  year = {2022},
  month = aug,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=21845}
}

TY  - CPAPER
TI  - Auditory Room Identification in a Memory Task
AU  - Klein, Florian
AU  - Surdu, Tatiana
AU  - Treybig, Lukas
AU  - Werner, Stephan
AU  - Aretz, Arthur
AU  - Birth, Kilian
AU  - Edelmann, Niklas
AU  - Seitelman, Florian
AU  - Ziener, Christian
AU  - Sporer, Thomas
T2  - AES Conference: AES 2022 International Audio for Virtual and Augmented Reality Conference
M1  - Paper 15
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/08/06
UR  - https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=21845
PB  - Audio Engineering Society
LA  - en
AB  - How we perceive and remember room acoustics is of particular interest in the domain of spatial audio. For the creation of virtual or augmented acoustic environments, a room acoustic impression needs to be created which matches the expectations of certain room classes or a specific room. These expectations are based on the auditory memory of the acoustic room impression. In this paper, we present an exploratory study to evaluate the ability of listeners to remember specific rooms. The task of the listeners was to detect the reference room in a modified ABX double-blind stimulus test which featured a pre-defined playback order and a fixed time schedule. Furthermore, we explored distraction effects by employing additional non-acoustic interferences. The results show a significant decrease of the auditory memory capacity within ten seconds, which is more pronounced when the listeners were distracted. However, the results suggest that auditory memory depends on what auditory cues are available.
ER  -