Context-dependent compensation shapes sound perception much as with color vision

Evidence

For example, the sound of a red car is perceived to be louder than a blue or green one, with a difference corresponding to 1–3 dB of SPL (Menzel et al., 2008). The audio track also influences eye movements and the direction of gaze, and sound has been shown to strengthen the salience of corresponding visual events (Coutrot et al., 2012). — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 1822 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Eliminating visual and other undesirable cues is also an important issue, since they may easily bias results or draw attention away from the focus of the study. (Of course there are also cases where just these effects are studied and therefore they have to be included.) Hearing is particularly influenced by vision, especially in the processing of information where vision is more reliable, such as in localization, object identification, and size. In these cases we ‘often hear what we see’ rather than what our ears receive. — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 873 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Vision and sound expectations must concord for convincing audio-scene perception; Visual and contextual cues bias human judgments of sound quality; Visual color affects perceived loudness of the same sound — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 1822 (+1 more)

Related

• Visual and contextual cues bias human judgments of sound quality (similarity 0.91)
• Visual color affects perceived loudness of the same sound (similarity 0.89)
• Vision dominates hearing in localization, identification, and size judgment (similarity 0.89)
• Vision and sound expectations must concord for convincing audio-scene perception (similarity 0.83)
• Sound quality judgments depend on listener context and expectations (similarity 0.82)
• Hearing is ubiquitous and emotion-rich where vision is sectorial and information-rich (similarity 0.81)
• Product sound quality depends on task context, not just pleasantness. (similarity 0.81)
• Auditory spatial perception emerges from weighted combination of localization cues (similarity 0.80)
• Attention shapes what a listener perceives as loud in complex soundscapes (similarity 0.80)
• Auditory pathway neural activity linearly encodes perceived loudness, not sound level (similarity 0.80)
• Sound colouration emerges from the combined loudspeaker and room properties (similarity 0.80)
• Visual cues override directional sound cues in film dialog perception (similarity 0.79)
• Soundscape quality depends on wanted-versus-unwanted context, not decibel level (similarity 0.79)
• Sound quality is judged as deviations from ideal amounts of perceptual dimensions (similarity 0.79)
• Spatial richness in multichannel sound inhibits perception of loudspeaker resonances (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Visual color affects perceived loudness of the same sound #exemplifies (0.80) — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 1822
• Visual and contextual cues bias human judgments of sound quality #corroborates (0.78)
• Vision dominates hearing in localization, identification, and size judgment #complicates (0.72) — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 873