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Showing 1 to 20 of 90 for “"Auditory perception"”.
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Mouse auditory perception of temporal features of sound
The house mouse has developed into a promising model in hearing research, allowing for the integration of behavioral (psychoacoustic) and physiological data from the same species. The present dissertation focusses on psychoacoustics and investigates two aspects of temporal processing in the mouse, …
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Fine structure in distortion product otoacoustic emissions and auditory perception
… investigated. Pure tone thresholds and loudness perception of sinusoids show a pronounced fine structure across frequency with level difference of up to 15 dB. These results are relevant for the comparison of DPOAE and psychoacoustical measurements as well as for the basic understanding of …
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The effects of blindness on tactile and auditory perception in rats
… content areas: the relevance of blindness to auditory sensitivity, the relevance of blindness to tactile sensitivity, the developmental effect of blindness and central vs. peripheral blindness and it affects perception. Studies sampled there represent these content areas.
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Individual differences in supra-threshold auditory perception - mechanisms and objective correlates
… source of sound in a quiet background, the auditory system can use a small subset of a very redundant set of spectral and temporal features. In stark contrast, communication in a complex, crowded scene places enormous demands on the auditory system. Spectrotemporal overlap between sounds …
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Hearing Africa: Auditory Perception and the Construction of Race In Early Modern England
… body and the senses in the early modern English auditory world as encounters with sub-Saharan Africans increased in regularity. It posits that bodies were essentially connected through sensory observation and experience, and that as the self was engaged with the other, the self strengthened its …
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Auditory perception of word elements in beginning reading through visual and kinesthetic speech clues
Thesis (Ed.D.)--Boston University.
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For fuck's sake: Investigating the affective norms and auditory perception of British English taboo words
… when presented auditorily. Models of speech perception often include lexical influences on perception, but assume all words are equal (beyond frequency of use). However, more recent work suggests that emotional dimensions (Valence and Arousal) influence speech perception, perhaps as a way of …
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The interaction between auditory imagery vividness and auditory perception, and its application to hallucination proneness
Auditory imagery is commonly used in everyday life, yet the majority of imagery research has focused on the visual domain. This thesis determined some of the mediators of auditory imagery vividness and investigated how vividness affects the interaction between imagery and perception (Chapter 2). In …
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Gender Differences in Auditory Perception of Pure Tone Frequencies and Speech Intelligibility via Bone Conduction Transducers
… to determine if gender differences exist in auditory signal detection. As frequency of the pure tone signal increased the difference between genders’ hearing thresholds and mean ranks of threshold overall; however, when Kruskal-Wallis statistical tests were performed, significant differences …
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Towards a Perceptually–grounded Theory of Microtonality: issues in sonority, scale construction and auditory perception and cognition
… music which is informed by current models of auditory perception and music cognition. In doing so, it treats a range of microtonal approaches and philosophies ranging from duplex subdivision of tempered scales to the generation of intervals in just–intonation– based schemes, including systems …
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A comparative analysis of auditory perception in songbirds: Eurasian jays (Garrulus glandarius) and great tits (Parus major)
In the field of comparative cognition, auditory perception has received less study than its visual counterpart, yet it confers important survival benefits. Accurate responses to auditory stimuli enable animals to react to or interact with the stimulus. Vocal communication between and within species …
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An Auditory Training Program for Kindergarten
The intent of this project is to develop an auditory training program for kindergarten children which will strengthen auditory perception. The program will identify the essential auditory skills, establish objectives, construct evaluative measures and outline activities that will develop basic …
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Auditory and visual perception, sex, and academic aptitude as predictors of achievement for first grade children
… explored the relationships among visual and auditory perception, academic aptitude, sex and achievement in reading, language arts and mathematics. The study also sought to determine if scores on visual and/or auditory perception would contribute additional predictive information about …
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Auditory Displays and Assistive Technologies: the use of head movements by visually impaired individuals and their implementation in binaural interfaces
… technologies thanks to the advent of binaural auditory virtual reality. It is known that head movements in the presence of sound elicit changes in the acoustical signals which arrive at each ear, and these changes can improve common auditory localisation problems in headphone-based auditory …
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Modulation informational masking
… relevant sounds are of fundamental importance to auditory perception and communication. This is true for listeners with normal hearing, listeners with hearing loss, and, in particular, for listeners with cochlear implants, for whom limitations on frequency resolution imposed by current-generation …
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An Investigation into the Use of Artificial Intelligence Techniques for the Analysis and Control of Instrumental Timbre and Timbral Combinations
… investigating the link between musical timbre, auditory perception and psychoacoustics for sounds emerging from instrument mixtures. It resulted in choosing to use verbal descriptors of timbral qualities to represent auditory perception of instrument combination sounds. Therefore, this thesis …
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Synthesis and perception of sounds from physical interactions reveals auditory intuitive physics
… of this knowledge. This thesis characterizes the auditory perception of physical object interactions, making three main contributions. First, we develop realistic contact sound synthesis tools, in part via large-scale measurements of object acoustics. Second, we show that humans solve ill-posed …
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