Audio equipment

LEAD has a complete facility designed for the study of musical cognition and emotion.

Psychoacoustical studies are carried out in small double-walled anechoic chambers (90 dBA sound insulation) or larger single-walled chambers (60 dBA sound insulation).

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Double-walled 90 dBA anechoic chamber Single-walled 60 dBA anechoic chamber

The study of emotions generated by music is done in a sound immersion studio with a 5.1 Audio system that allows highly realistic reproduction of music as it would be heard at a concert.  The facility is also used in studies on sound spatialization in which listeners must learn the rules of sound source movements with which they are presented.

5.1 Audio Studio

 

Finally, musical performance and sight-reading is currently being done with a Yamaha midi piano with an integrated eye-tracking system.

Piano with an integrated eye-tracking system

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