AES Show 2024 NY

We present a study on the perception of the missing fundamental in vibrational complex tones. When asked to match an audible frequency to the frequency of a vibrational tone with a missing fundamental frequency, participants in two experiments associated the audible frequency with lower frequencies than those present in the vibration, often corresponding to the missing fundamental of the vibrational tone. This association was found regardless of whether the vibration was presented on the back (first experiment) or the feet (second experiment). One possible application of this finding could be the reinforcement of low frequencies via vibrational motors even when such motors have high resonance frequencies