Division of Applied Acoustics, Chalmers University of Technology, UK.
Emotion. 2010 Jun;10(3):416-22. doi: 10.1037/a0018423.
When people hear a sound (a "sound object" or a "sound event") the perceived auditory space around them might modulate their emotional responses to it. Spaces can affect both the acoustic properties of the sound event itself and may also impose boundaries to the actions one can take with respect to this event. Virtual acoustic rooms of different sizes were used in a subjective and psychophysiological experiment that evaluated the influence of the auditory space perception on emotional responses to various sound sources. Participants (N = 20) were exposed to acoustic spaces with sound source positions and room acoustic properties varying across the experimental conditions. The results suggest that, overall, small rooms were considered more pleasant, calmer, and safer than big rooms, although this effect of size seems to disappear when listening to threatening sound sources. Sounds heard behind the listeners tended to be more arousing, and elicited larger physiological changes than sources in front of the listeners. These effects were more pronounced for natural, compared to artificial, sound sources, as confirmed by subjective and physiological measures.
当人们听到声音（“声音对象”或“声音事件”）时，他们周围感知到的听觉空间可能会调节他们对此声音的情绪反应。空间不仅可以影响声音事件本身的声学特性，还可以对人们针对该事件采取的行动施加限制。在一项主观和心理生理实验中使用了不同大小的虚拟声学房间，以评估听觉空间感知对各种声源的情绪反应的影响。参与者（N=20）暴露于声源位置和房间声学特性在实验条件下变化的声学空间中。结果表明，总体而言，小房间比大房间被认为更舒适、更平静、更安全，尽管这种大小效应在听到威胁性声源时似乎消失了。位于听众后面的声音往往更能引起人们的兴奋，并引起比听众前面的声音更大的生理变化。与人工声源相比，这些效果在自然声源中更为明显，这通过主观和生理测量得到了证实。
