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Andrew J. Kolarik, Brian C. J. Moore, Pavel Zahorik, Silvia Cirstea + 1 more
'Shahina Pardhan'] Auditory distance perception plays a major role in spatial awareness, enabling location of objects and avoidance of obstacles in the environment. However, it remains under-researched relative to studies of the directional aspect of sound localization. This review focuses on the following four aspects…
Büşra Köse-Özkan, Mazhar Özkan, Yasin Celal Güneş, Oktay Algın + 1 more
Auditory cortex connectivity extends beyond the processing of acoustic stimuli, playing a crucial role in cognitive and emotional regulation through its interactions with higher-order brain regions. Although the neural mechanisms underlying acoustic information processing along the auditory pathway are well-documented…
Federica Cimmelli, Barbara La Scaleia, Isabelle Viaud-Delmon, Francesco Lacquaniti + 1 more
Auditory information plays a critical role in human posture and locomotion. Beyond its obvious contribution to spatial awareness, sound provides continuous cues about body orientation, movement dynamics and environmental context. This review summarizes current knowledge on how auditory inputs modulate postural…
Sebastian Hoth, Izet Baljić
Today’s audiological functional diagnostics is based on a variety of hearing tests, whose large number takes account of the variety of malfunctions of a complex sensory organ system and the necessity to examine it in a differentiated manner and at any age of life. The objective is to identify nature and origin of the…
Adam Weisser
Whether animal or speech communication, environmental sounds, or music – all sounds carry some information. Sound sources are embedded in acoustic environments that contain any number of additional sources that emit sounds that reach the listener's ears concurrently. It is up to the listener to decode the acoustic…
Pratap Sriram Sundar, Chandan Chowdhury, Sagar Kamarthi, Josep Samitier
'Josep Samitier'] The design of the human ear is one of nature’s engineering marvels. This paper examines the merit of ear design using axiomatic design principles. The ear is the organ of both hearing and balance. A sensitive ear can hear frequencies ranging from 20 Hz to 20,000 Hz. The vestibular apparatus of the…
Timo Oess, Heiko Neumann, Marc O. Ernst
Early studies have shown that the localization of a sound source in the vertical plane can be accomplished with only a single ear, thus assumed the localization mechanism to be based on monaural cues. Such cues are induced by the pinna and consist of notches and peaks in the perceived spectrum which vary systematically…
Mary M. Flaherty, Achim Klug
The 16 articles assembled in this Research Topic share a common tension. The auditory system is, by any measure, a remarkable piece of biological engineering-capable of parsing speech, localizing sources, and tracking melody across extraordinary ranges of acoustic complexity. And yet it is also surprisingly vulnerable…
Milind N. Kunchur
| SECTION | PAGE | | --- | --- | | ABSTRACT | 1 | | 1 INTRODUCTION | 1 | | GLOSSARY OF ABBREVIATIONS AND SYMBOLS | 2 | | 2 PHYSIOLOGY OF THE EAR | 3 | | 2.1 External and middle ear | 3 | | 2.2 Cochlea | 3 | | 2.3 Frequency range and hearing loss | 5 | | 2.4 Discrimination of pitch, level, and rhythm | 6 | | 2.5…
Tjeerd C. Andringa, David Welch, Mark Reybrouck, Piotr Podlipniak
This paper provides a conceptual framework for soundscape appraisal as a key outcome of the hearing process. Sound appraisal involves auditory sense-making and produces the soundscape as the perceived and understood acoustic environment. The soundscape exists in the experiential domain and involves meaning-giving.…
Janna Steinebach, Tobias Reichenbach
Humans are remarkably skilled at understanding speech in noisy environments. While segregation of different audio streams is mostly accomplished in the auditory cortex, it remains unclear whether the inner ear, where the sound detection occurs, already contributes to selective attention. In particular, the cochlea…
Cynthia D. King, Tingan Zhu, Jennifer M. Groh
Information about eye movements is necessary for linking auditory and visual information across space. Recent work has suggested that such signals are incorporated into processing at the level of the ear itself (17). Here we report confirmation that the eye movement signals that reach the ear can produce perceptual…
Yusuke Omura, Kento Kawaharazuka, Yuya Nagamatsu, Yuya Koga + 6 more
'Manabu Nishiura' 'Yasunori Toshimitsu' 'Yuki Asano' 'Kei Okada' 'Koji Kawasaki' 'Masayuki Inaba'] Human-like environment recognition by musculoskeletal humanoids is important for task realization in real complex environments and for use as dummies for test subjects. Humans integrate various sensory information to…
Piotr Majdak, Robert Baumgartner, Claudia Jenny
Human listeners need to permanently interact with their threedimensional (3-D) environment. To this end, they require efficient perceptual mechanisms to form a sufficiently accurate 3-D auditory space. In this chapter, we discuss the formation of the 3-D auditory space from various perspectives. The aim is to show the…
Woon Ju Park, Ione Fine
Motion detection is a fundamental property of the visual system that plays an important role across many of the human senses. In vision, motion processing is classically described using a motion energy model which assumes spatiotemporally selective (i.e., non-separable) filters that capture the smooth continuous change…
Sara Akbarzadeh, Sungmin Lee, Chin‐Tuan Tan
In multi speakers environments, cochlear implant (CI) users may attend to a target sound source in a different manner from the normal hearing (NH) individuals during a conversation. This study attempted to investigate the effect of conversational sound levels on the mechanisms adopted by CI and NH listeners in…
Michel R.T. Sinke, Jan W. Buitenhuis, Frank van der Maas, Job Nwiboko + 3 more
Prolonged auditory sensory deprivation leads to brain reorganization, indicated by functional enhancement in remaining sensory systems, a phenomenon known as cross-modal plasticity. In this study we investigated differences in functional brain network shifts from eyes-closed to eyes-open conditions between deaf and…
Enrique A. Lopez-Poveda
Hearing impairment is a serious disease with increasing prevalence. It is defined based on increased audiometric thresholds but increased thresholds are only partly responsible for the greater difficulty understanding speech in noisy environments experienced by some older listeners or by hearing-impaired listeners.…
Adam Weisser
Contrary to traditional thinking about hearing in which the broadband audio spectrum is taken as a whole, modern hearing science has gradually uncovered how the channel-based temporal envelope and its own spectrum are often prioritized by the auditory system. This is achieved through various processing mechanisms at…
Alex Armstrong, Chi Chung Lam, Shievanie Sabesan, Nicholas A. Lesica
Hearing aids are the only available treatment for mild-to-moderate sensorineural hearing loss, but often fail to improve perception in difficult listening conditions. To identify the reasons for this failure, we studied the underlying neural code using large-scale single-neuron recordings in gerbils, a common animal…
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Occupational chemical hazards pose profound risks to chemists in laboratory and industrial settings, encompassing acute and chronic exposures that imperil sensory organs (e.g., ocular, auditory, olfactory, dermal) and vital physiological systems. This manuscript delineates a multifaceted, innovative protocol suite…
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Acoustic measurements of batteries are known to be correlated to their state-of-charge, creating opportunities for state estimation that do not rely on electrical signals. State estimators are typically parametric models fitted from data, often from the broad toolbox of machine learning. Such models can be easily…
Gregson, Watson, Orton, Haddrell + 9 more
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic has resulted in an unprecedented shutdown in social and economic activity with the cultural sector particularly severely affected. Restrictions on performance have arisen from a perception that there is a significantly higher risk of aerosol…