Reenacting sensorimotor features of drawing movements from friction sounds

Etienne Thoret (1) , Mitsuko Aramaki (2) , Richard Kronland-Martinet (2) , Jean-Luc Velay (3) , Sølvi Ystad (2)

1 LMA - Laboratoire de Mécanique et d'Acoustique [Marseille]
2 Sons
3 LNC - Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives [Marseille]

Even though we generally don't pay attention to the friction sounds produced when we are writing or drawing, these sounds are recordable, and can even evoke the underlying gesture. In this paper, auditory perception of such sounds, and the internal representations they evoke when we listen to them, is considered from the sensorimotor learning point of view. The use of synthesis processes of friction sounds makes it possible to investigate the perceptual influence of each gestures parameter separately. Here, the influence of the velocity profile on the mental representation of the gesture induced by a friction sound was investigated through 3 experiments. The results reveal the perceptual relevance of this parameter, and particularly a specific morphology corresponding to biological movements, the so-called 1/3-power law. The experiments are discussed according to the sensorimotor theory and the invariant taxonomy of the ecological approach.

Mots clés: Sensorimotor Approach of Auditory Perception; Friction Sounds; 1/3 power law; Biological Movement

Domaines: Acoustique [physics.class-ph]; Acoustique [physics.class-ph]; Son [cs.SD]; Psychologie

Etienne Thoret, Mitsuko Aramaki, Richard Kronland-Martinet, Jean-Luc Velay, Sølvi Ystad. Reenacting sensorimotor features of drawing movements from friction sounds. From Sounds to Music and Emotions, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp.130-153, 2013, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 978-3-642-41248-6. ⟨10.1007/978-3-642-41248-6_8⟩. ⟨hal-00866358⟩