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Robert Baumgartner

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Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience @ Austrian Academy of Sciences

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In other words: without spatial hearing, the brain’s early warning system for approaching threats breaks down.

26.08.2025 11:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Frontiers | The role of spatial perception in auditory looming bias: neurobehavioral evidence from impossible ears IntroductionSpatial hearing enables both voluntary localization of sound sources and automatic monitoring of the surroundings. The auditory looming bias (ALB...

Why do approaching sounds grab our attention more than receding ones? Our new study suggests that this "looming bias" isn’t just about simple acoustic features — it depends on whether the sound can be localized in space. @isf-oeaw.bsky.social‬
doi.org/10.3389/fnin...

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Very much looking forward to our #Dynamates #FENS2024 Satellite Symposium at OeAW & UniVie with Florent Meyniel, John van Opstal, Simone Pika, and Barbara Shinn-Cunningham. Only few spots left – don't wait to register: www.oeaw.ac.at/isf/dynamate...

25.02.2024 14:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Apply for a 1-year postdoc position to join our highly interdisciplinary team of young auditory cognitive researchers and perform cutting-edge model-based analyses of neurobehavioural data (👆+EEG+👁️) www.oeaw.ac.at/en/ari/ari/a... Located at ÖAW in Vienna. Please distribute!

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