A Neuroscientific Approach to Creating a Personalised, Spatial and Immersive Audio Experience

Abstract
Creating audio that convincingly represents sounds in a 3D space has now started to infiltrate the commercial landscape. Headphones, videogames and cinema are all vying to generate some level of spatialisation and immersion for the listener. The goal of this PhD project is to understand how individual differences (e.g. ear morphology) can affect the perception of spatial and immersive audio by developing an objective experimental approach through the recording and analysis of brain activity via electroencephalography, pupillometry and behaviour. Ultimately this multidisciplinary project will deepen our understanding of how to design and reproduce a realistic and immersive virtual sound space.

How to Apply 
Please contact Dr Lorenzo Picinali if you are interested in applying for this project. 

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