Haptic-audio timing errors are as noticeable as audio-visual ones

Evidence

The JND of detection of haptic–audio asynchronicity has been found to be 24 ms with impulsive stimuli (Adelstein et al., 2003), which is a value similar to that obtained with tests on the detection of audio–visual asynchronicity. However, in many cases, the auditory–visual asynchronicity threshold values are higher than auditory–tactile asynchronicity threshold values. Therefore, auditory–tactile asynchronicity may be even more critical than auditory–visual asynchronicity. In particular, musicians have lower auditory–tactile asynchronicity thresholds, about 10 ms, than the general population, possibly because of their training. — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 1827

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

Related

• Tactile-audio desynchrony is as critical as audiovisual desynchrony (similarity 0.94)
• Group delay audibility threshold is 1.6 to 2 milliseconds (similarity 0.80)
• The ear detects binaural delays finer than individual neuron timing supports (similarity 0.80)
• Tactile frequency discrimination is crude, often off by an octave (similarity 0.80)
• Human audio-visual synchronicity tolerance is asymmetric because sound naturally lags light. (similarity 0.80)
• Temporal-structure processing efficiency drives pitch but not interaural timing tasks (similarity 0.80)
• Just-noticeable interaural delay is about 50 microseconds below 1.5 kHz (similarity 0.79)
• Microsecond ITD precision arises from phase-delay matching, not absolute latency (similarity 0.79)
• Humans can match durations of silence to sounds of similar length. (similarity 0.79)
• Coincident delayed sounds are far harder to detect than spatially separated ones (similarity 0.78)
• Wider stimulus bandwidths improve listeners’ ability to detect temporal gaps (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Coincident delayed sounds are far harder to detect than spatially separated ones #corroborates (0.85) — Toole, Floyd E, Sound reproduction- the acoustics and…, 627