Looming Losses in Future Time Perception

Looming Losses in Future Time Perception

trative Social Sciences and Economics, Koç University, Istanbul (e-mail: [email protected]). Robyn A. LeBoeuf is Assistant Professor of Marketing, Warrington College of Business Administration, University of Florida (e-mail: [email protected]). The authors thank Lyle Brenner for helpful comments on a previous draft of this article. Dilip Soman served as associate editor for this article. BALER B...

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Auditory looming perception in rhesus monkeys.

The detection of approaching objects can be crucial to the survival of an organism. The perception of looming has been studied extensively in the visual system, but remains largely unexplored in audition. Here we show a behavioral bias in rhesus monkeys orienting to "looming" sounds. As in humans, the bias occurred for harmonic tones (which can reliably indicate single sources), but not for bro...

Auditory looming perception: influences on anticipatory judgments.

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Threat modulates perception of looming visual stimuli

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