Takashima Midori
Iwaki Meisei University, Iwaki City, Japan.
Perception. 2018 Dec;47(12):1196-1199. doi: 10.1177/0301006618808937. Epub 2018 Oct 23.
This study examined whether auditory pitch and loudness affect the perception of object’s weight. Two series experiments showed that the object with High-Pitch sound was perceived as being lighter than the object with Low-Pitch sound and that the perceived weight was not affected by loudness. Because auditory pitch has a relationship to the weight of an object while loudness has a relationship to the distance of a placed object, the perceived weight was affected by auditory pitch not loudness. Given these results, perhaps sound effects may make it easier to carry heavy luggage?
本研究考察了听觉音高和响度是否会影响对物体重量的感知。两个系列实验表明，高音调声音的物体被感知为比低音调声音的物体更轻，且感知到的重量不受响度影响。由于听觉音高与物体重量有关，而响度与放置物体的距离有关，所以感知到的重量受听觉音高而非响度的影响。基于这些结果，那么音效是否会使搬运重物变得更容易呢？
