  Auditory frisson is the experience of feeling of cold or shivering related to
sound in the absence of a physical cold stimulus. Multiple examples of
frisson-inducing sounds have been reported, but the mechanism of auditory
frisson remains elusive. Typical frisson-inducing sounds may contain a looming
effect, in which a sound appears to approach the listener's peripersonal space.
Previous studies on sound in peripersonal space have provided objective
measurements of sound-inducing effects, but few have investigated the
subjective experience of frisson-inducing sounds. Here we explored whether it
is possible to produce subjective feelings of frisson by moving a noise sound
(white noise, rolling beads noise, or frictional noise produced by rubbing a
plastic bag) stimulus around a listener's head. Our results demonstrated that
sound-induced frisson can be experienced stronger when auditory stimuli are
rotated around the head (binaural moving sounds) than the one without the
rotation (monaural static sounds), regardless of the source of the noise sound.
Pearson's correlation analysis showed that several acoustic features of
auditory stimuli, such as variance of interaural level difference (ILD),
loudness, and sharpness, were correlated with the magnitude of subjective
frisson. We had also observed that the subjective feelings of frisson by moving
a musical sound had increased comparing with a static musical sound.
