martin@cod.NOSC.MIL (Douglas W. Martin) (11/16/89)
Here is the first part of the bibliography which I have compiled in response to the postings on psychoacoustics. These represent a fairly exhaustive search of the literature on blind echo location and obstacle detection. I hope to have a bibliography soon on the topics of binaural recording--using dummy heads, and the differences between localization and lateralization of sound. Of course, the field of psychoacoustics, i.e. human perception of sound, includes hundreds of topics like those discussed here. Anyway, here are the blind echolocation references. ----------------------- Ammons, C. H., P. Worchel, and K. M. Dallenbach, "Facial Vision: the Perception of Obstacles out of doors by Blindfolded and Blindfolded-Deafened Subjects", Amer. Journ. Psych. 66 519-553, 1953. Basset, I. G. and I. J. Eastmond, "Echo Location Measurement of Pitch versus Distance for Sounds Reflected from a Flat Surface", J. Acoust. Soc. Amer., 36(5), 911-916, 1964. Cotzin, M. and K. M. Dallenbach, "Facial Vision: the Role of Pitch and Loudness in the Perception of Obstacles by the Blind", Amer. Journ. Psych. 63, 485-515, 1950. (This was part of the early research at Cornell Univ. which determined the auditory nature of the obstacle sense.) Cotzin, M., "The Role of Audible Frequencies in the Perception of Obstacles by the Blind", Psych. Bull. 39, 503-504, 1942. (This was part of the early research at Cornell Univ. which determined the auditory nature of the obstacle sense.) DiDea, A. "Detection of Obstacles by Blindfolded Persons", Biology Rev. 9, 9-15, 1947. Diderot, D., "Letter on the Blind", 1749, (excerpted from "Diderot's Early Philosophical Works", translated and edited by M. Jourdain; Open Court Publishing, Chicago and London, 1916.) Dressler, F. B., "On the Pressure Sense of the Drum of the Ear and Facial Vision", Amer. Journ. Psych. 5, 344-350, 1893. Griffin, D. R., "Listening in the Dark", Yale Univ. Press, New Haven, 1958. (chapter 12, pages 297-322 deals with blind echolocation.) Hayes, S. P., "Facial Vision, or the Sense of Obstacles", Perkins Publications, Watertown, Mass., #12, 1935. Juurmaa, J. "On the Accuracy of Obstacle Detection by the Blind", New Outlook for the Blind, 64(3), 65-72, 1970. Juurmaa, J. and J. Soili, "On the Obstacle Sense of the Blind", Helsinki Inst. Occupational Health Monograph, 28, 1965. Juurmaa, J., S. Kyost, and M. Aatu, "The Effects of Training in the Perception of Obstacles without Vision", Helsinki Inst. Occupational Health Monograph, 55, 1968. Kellog, W. N. "Sonar System of the Blind", Science, 137, 399-404, 1962. Kellog, W. N., "Sonar System of the Blind", Amer. Foundation for the Blind Research Bulletin, #4, New York, 1964. Kohler, I., "Orientation by Aural Clues", Amer. Foundation for the Blind Research Bulletin, #4, New York, 1964. pages 14-53. Kohler, I. "Facial Vision Rehabilitated", in "Animal Sonar Systems, Biology and Bionics", G. Busnel, ed. 187-196, 1966. Rice, C. E. and S. H. Feinstein, "The Influence of Target Parameters on a Human Echo Detection Task", Proc. Amer. Psych. Assoc., Washington, D.C. 1965, pages 65-66. Rice, C.E. "Quantitative Measures of Unaided Echo Detection in the Blind: Auditory Echo Localization", Proc. of St. Dunstans International Conference of Sensory Devices for the Blind, London, 1966. Rice, C. E., "Human Echo Perception", Science, 155, 656-664, 1967. Rice, C. E., S. H. Feinstein, and R. J. Schusterman, "Echo Detection Ability of the blind: Size and Distance Factors", Journ. Exp. Psych. 70, 246-251, 1965. Rice, C. E., "The Human Sonar System", in "Animal Sonar Systems: Biology and Bionics", R. Busnel, ed. 719-756, 1966. Rice, C. E. and S. H. Feinstein, "Sonar System of the Blind: Size Discriminations", Science, 148, 1107-1108, 1965. Schenkman, B. N., "Human Echolocation: the Detection of Objects by the Blind", PHd thesis, department of psychology, Uppsala University, Box 227 S-751 #04, Uppsala, Sweden. Supa, M., M. Cotzin, and K. M. Dallenbach, "Facial Vision: the Perception of Obstacles by the Blind", Amer. Journ. Psych., 57, 133-183, 1944. (This was part of the early research at Cornell Univ. which determined the auditory nature of the obstacle sense.) Welch, J. R., "A Psychoacoustic Study of Factors Affecting Human Echo Location", Amer. Foundation for the Blind, Research Bull. #4., pages 1-13, 1964. Wiener, W. R., "Audition for the Visually Impaired", in "Foundations of Orientation and Mobility", R. L. Welch and B. B. Blasch, eds., Amer. Foundation for the Blind, New York, 1980. Wilson, J. P. "Obstacle Detection Using Ambient or Self-Generated Noise", Nature, 211, page 218, 1964. Wilson, J. P., "Psychoacoustics of Obstacle Detection Using Ambient or Self-Generated Noise", in "Animal Sonar Systems", R. G. Busnel, ed. 89-114, 1966. Worchel, P. and K. M. Dallenbach, "Facial Vision: the Perception of Objects by the Deaf-Blind", Amer. Journ. Psych., 60, 502-553, 1947. Worchel, P. and J. H. Berry, "The Perception of Obstacles by the Deaf", J. Exp. Psych., 43, 187-194, 1952. Worchel, P. and C. Ammons, "The Course of Learning in the Perception of Obstacles", Amer. Journ. Psych., 1951. Worchel, P., J. Mauney, and J. G. Andrew, "The Perception of Obstacles by the Blind", J. Exp. Psych., 40, 746-751, 1950. Worchel, P. and J. Mauney, "The Effect of Practice on the Perception of Obstacles by the Blind", J. Exp. Psych. 41, 170-176, 1951. Doug Martin martin@nosc.mil Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, Ca. 92152. phone: (619) 553-3659.